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...simply opportunism. They realize that Wahid will fall, and believe that if they ally themselves with Megawati, who is fairly malleable, they'll get more in terms of cabinet seats and plush appointments. And they're also gambling that Megawati is very weak, and that she won't last very long, either. Then, other contenders will take advantage of the ensuing chaos to make their own bid for power...
...either. He fills a parliamentary seat that was occupied by his grandfather and father, and last fall he held back from supporting a longtime ally's abortive coup against Mori. There was also a fair bit of back-room politicking on Koizumi's behalf. At a dinner in a plush Ginza restaurant in mid-April, half a dozen conservative stalwarts, including former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, selected Koizumi as their man. "Our backgrounds are different," Nakasone told TIME last week, "but in terms of ideology and policy, he is my protege...
...that you gave to me," but rather lamenting the "cross I bear." I really think my version is much cooler, especially considering there are too few songs that discuss the importance of stuffed animals in our daily lives-i.e. whenever I get sad, I go play with the plush koalas in the Discovery Channel Store.) Anyway, to make a long story short, Alanis helped expurgate long-standing rage-and with this mass catharsis came mass complacency. The Spice Girls were born, TRL helped launch Britney, Christina and the other blonde nincompoops, and angry chic just seemed, well...
...this very serious-looking javelin the twenty-something Kristin had speared a toy lion cub. "It's to show how I could survive" she explained. But it's only a miniature plush animal, I pointed out. "But it proves I could kill if I was hungry." I asked her what gave her the killer instinct. "I teach 30 fifth-grade kids...
...much else has changed. Wide streets curve around British colonial mansions. Bogyoke Market (great handicrafts, particularly lacquerware) sits beside animposing Victorian rail station. Downtown is filled with Italianate architecture covered in tropical mold. Near Trader's Hotel, cinemas have been allowed to reopen, offering plush 1950s-style seating and the latest releases from Hollywood for the period price of 25 cents...