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...core. Yet he needs a woman; he seems happy only when he can nod off, in a taxi, on a kind lady's shoulder. He sounds like a weary cynic, but underneath he is like every Wong Kar-wai character: a melancholy romantic. And he has the bruises to prove...
...Yudhoyono?or "S.B.Y.," as he is commonly known?to prove that confidence is not misplaced. Preliminary election results show him winning a commanding 61% of the vote. Although ballot counting will continue for about another week and Megawati has yet to concede, Yudhoyono is widely expected to take the helm of the world's fourth-most-populous country and largest Muslim nation on Oct. 20. The challenges ahead could make even a hard-boiled general like Yudhoyono blanche. Over the past six years, since the 1998 fall of dictator Suharto, Indonesia has been losing ground on several fronts, beset...
...clear idea of what needs to be done and how he's going to do it," says Agost Benard, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's in Singapore. But political honeymoons tend to be short, and the feel-good factor could easily fade if first impressions quickly prove unfounded. After that, the new President will have to answer to voters like Riza, the laid-off backpack maker, who says he'll vote with his wallet in the next election, too, if Yudhoyono doesn't surpass his predecessors in creating jobs. "We will try to find a new person...
...speaking at a Democratic fund-raiser in Texas, for which he later apologized. But those who know him well say he isn't driven by politics as much as his addiction to breaking news. "He takes to stories like he's still a kid and trying to prove himself," says a CBS News producer. "He loves it." Rather's contract expires in 2006, at which point he will be 75. Heyward denies any talk of asking Rather to leave early...
...Blogs prove this. One of the best is a site started by a law professor in Tennessee, Instapundit.com This "amateur" has earned the trust of his readers simply by his track record--just as the New York Times did a century ago. And after a couple of years, his readership rivals and often eclipses those of the traditional political magazines. Does he screw up? Of course he does sometimes. I've done so many times myself. But the beauty of the blogosphere is that if you make a mistake, someone will soon let you know...