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...order to defuse popular anger at the time, Wahid had given Megawati the vice presidency, thereby forging a coalition in which his grip on power was always going to be tenuous. Now his rivals are withdrawing their support in what observers believe is mostly a power-play to get rid of an ailing president blasted by his critics for arrogance and incompetence...
...Secondly, a lot of the consumption in America is done by addicts, and we've got to do a better job of helping people rid themselves of their habits. One of my visions for the faith-based initiative is to encourage faith-based programs to become more actively involved in helping people kick the drug habit...
...stop Colby first, who's been Hoovering up the free food and prizes for weeks and long since stopped apologizing for it. And the guy looks like he could be ready to run the table. There's always the jury, and lord knows they've been trying to get rid of him for weeks. But if he sweeps the challenges, even his victims, the ones who leaned on him for too long, will have to hand it to him. And we'll watch the Colbster drive away in his Brand New Pontiac Aztec, with stray bills fluttering out the windows...
...Dick Cheney] Next we get rid of those nutrition labels on food. All those damn milligrams of cholesterol staring you in the face...
...precious Cisco stock, and I was hearing a lot less from James Cramer. But then I realized it might affect me: no more free deliveries of items ordered on the Web, the end of the tasting menu, less airtime for Maria Bartiromo--even an e-mail about getting rid of the free Snapple from our office refrigerators, though I may have hastened that by hoarding the remaining cases under my desk late one night last week...