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Even if the Administration's preferred candidate, Allawi, manages to hold on to the Premier job, the U.S. will no doubt find him less malleable than before. That's because the new Cabinet will be beholden not to the U.S. but to an elected Iraqi parliament. And since this body will represent the popular will, it's a good bet it will pressure the new government into populist gestures, including calling for an early exit of U.S. troops. "Even if it has the same faces, the next government will be very different from the interim administration," says al-Mahdi...
...intellectuals in the early 1980s, and urged high-ranking cadres to study foreign political systems in the 1990s. Since assuming China's top posts?Hu replaced Jiang as Party chief in late 2002, then as President in 2003 and as commander in chief last September?Hu and his Premier, Wen Jiabao, have fashioned themselves as populists by touring hospital wards of SARS patients and spending holidays with peasants. Hu speaks often of helping China's poor, and has increased investment in impoverished western regions. He has talked of strengthening the "rule of law" and protecting rights enshrined in China...
...back pages away from the Yanks and increase their public exposure. Such media coups are growing more and more commonplace as every off-season becomes an extension of on-field rivalries and teams compete for the attention and money of fans by throwing enormous chunks of cash at premier free agents...
...Follini, the wily Christian Democratic leader, threatened to withdraw his party from Berlusconi's coalition. Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti's forced resignation in July fired the hopes of opposition leaders even more. The bluster and bravado that had helped keep Berlusconi in office for longer than any other Italian premier since World War II seemed to be wearing thin Yet six months later, the Italian leader is once again sitting pretty. What's his secret? Part of the credit goes to a new, gentler governing approach, as Berlusconi has tempered his outbursts against center-left opponents and found new ways...
...Petro Poroshenko, who made his millions in the candy business. Both want to be Prime Minister. "Some top lieutenants are saying that Yushchenko's health will not hold out for more than a year or two, so he'd better make sure he picks up 'the right kind of Premier,' meaning the person who is saying this, of course," says Bondarenko. A close Yushchenko aide, who spoke to Time on condition of anonymity, shares Bondarenko's apprehensions. "Let's face it: the key people in the Yushchenko team - [M.P.s] Yuliya Tymoshenko, David Zhvania, Petro Poroshenko - are from the same oligarchic...