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...Last Sunday night, on the eve of her dramatic triumph in a bitter power struggle for the Indonesian presidency, she was to be found not huddling with advisers, but watching the animated movie "Shrek." By all accounts Megawati has always imagined herself less a politician than a princess - the daughter of an overthrown king who would one day oust the usurper, reclaim her father's throne and save the nation...
...that requires Bush to decide whether compassion for sick people trumps his conservative convictions about protecting the unborn. It's a decision that requires the skills not of a CEO--a man who likes to delegate the small stuff and set the larger tone--but, yes, of a politician...
...weeks ahead of a crucial election, Junichiro Koizumi stands on a stage in Tokyo's bustling Ginza shopping district before a crowd of 3,500. Despite the afternoon's oven-like 35C heat, Japan's Prime Minister wears the white gloves favored by old-time politicians on the stump. But it's his only nod to tradition: nothing about his speech is typical of a Japanese politician seeking votes. "I will carry out reforms that no other parties have dared to touch," Koizumi shouts, the wind whipping his famous locks, helicopters with TV crews whirring overhead. "We will march onward...
...Pain? Until fairly recently, a politician talking about hard times ahead in an election speech could just as well hang up his gloves. But this is Japan 2001?and this is Koizumi, who has turned bad news into political capital. He swept into power in April by telling Japanese voters what they already knew but rarely heard from their leaders: that their country was an economic mess. Yes, he pledged to clean it up?by getting rid of bad bank loans, privatizing government-run behemoths like the postal service and killing useless public-works projects. But he also warned that...
...German-Jewish mother and an Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy...