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...many, the President's aloofness comes as no surprise. "Mega is Mega," sighs Arbi Sanit, a professor of political science at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. "Expecting more than what she has done is like expecting a horse to have horns...
...resolve to tackle tough problems. So to hang on to power and get re-elected in 2004, Megawati can't afford to ignore the conservatives. "Every politician in Indonesia needs the Islamic vote, and with Megawati it's even more so because of her secular nationalist background," says Arbi Sanit, a lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia...
...have stirred her. If she takes steps against Ba'asyir and other JI members believed to be at large in Indonesia, she risks alienating the Muslim majority, whose support she desperately needs if she and her party are to be returned to office in the 2004 elections. Says Arbi Sanit, a lecturer in politics at the University of Indonesia: "Every politician in Indonesia needs the Islamic vote, and with Megawati it's even more so because of her secular background...
...talk to him if you want. We'll give you his address in Yogyakarta.'" Seeking to increase their diminishing role in government, the military and police have fallen into an uneasy alliance with Islamic politicians. "There is a danger with this game," warns the University of Indonesia's Sanit. "What if one day Indonesia is accused of being another Iraq by the international community? We'd be dead meat...
...winner: Daniel Bovet, 50, Swiss-born but now a naturalized Italian. One of the research stars of Rome's Istituto Superiore di Sanità, he is a scientist's scientist who has spent a lifetime in quiet laboratories. Though his discoveries have been the basis of countless medical products-sulfa drugs, antihistamines, muscle relaxants-he has never taken out a patent in his own name or made a penny from the commercial exploitation of his findings...
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