Word: politicians
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...split party, and won't have a big majority or resounding mandate to back her up when challenged," says Pascal Perrineau, director for the Center for Study of French Political Life in Paris. "The second problem is, Ségolène Royal is a very determined and strong politician who believes she's the person to lead the PS back to national power. She won't simply fold up her plans and projects, sit down, and be quiet...
...makes up for lost exposure - with nearly four hours of raw video footage probing both that crime and society's knee-jerk response. "I left everything in so viewers could come to their own conclusions," says writer turned filmmaker Ing K, who collaborated with photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom and opposition politician Kraisak Choonhavan on this marathon of national self-examination...
...shot, but he’s probably one of the few guys in the country who has so many different options…I think Andrew’s challenge is figuring out what he wants to do with his life. I wish he’d become a politician, in the best context, because I think he’d be an unbelievable leader,” Murphy says. “I don’t know if he ever really would want to do that, but when I say Andrew Berry for President...
Nowhere but on Capitol Hill could a 69-year-old politician serving his 17th term be considered a Young Turk. But in challenging and unseating a committee chairman known as "the Truck," California Congressman Henry Waxman has succeeded in the kind of power sortie that happens only once every few decades in Congress - and put himself in a position where he will help determine the fate of much of Barack Obama's domestic agenda...
...even in Japan, the President-Elect of the United States is a media darling. Well before this month's election, Obama fever was in full swing in a small town in western Japan called Obama, where residents formed hula teams in homage of the politician's Hawaii years. Ten months ago, Notchi didn't even know who Barack Obama was until his wife mentioned he looked like the up-and-coming politician. "I thought Obama was a pro wrestler or a fighter or something," the comedian recalls, wearing the dark suit - originally purchased for weddings and funerals - that he uses...