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...Smashing Success...
...actress named Deepika Chikhalia won a parliamentary seat, five years after winning fame for her portrayal of the goddess Sita, India's most revered symbol of womanhood, in a wildly popular television serial based on the Hindu epic the Ramayana. Hoping to copy her success, other political parties soon put up their own TV-serial candidates. Sita exerts tremendous power over Indian popular culture: she is the bane of feminists, the impossible ideal held up by disapproving in-laws and yet, for many women, an object of devotion. What political party wouldn't like some of that heady aura...
Zuma agrees too that the ANC is in crisis, alienated from its people by power and riches. "The success of liberation ... tests the clarity" of even the best African revolutionaries, he says. "Many liberation movements have turned into something else and abandoned what they were. The ANC came to that point ... where we might have fallen." The fix, he says, is in "renewal ... paying attention to [the ANC's] principles [but] talking about ... how we have to do things differently." A presidential adviser underlines the new tone. "The big difference today is that now we have a leadership that says...
...faces would challenge even the best- run nation, and South Africa is far from that. State institutions have been hurt by the departure or exclusion of apartheid-era workers and their replacement with officials too often appointed for their political connections. Zuma's aide says the biggest obstacles to success are "corruption and ineptness in the bureaucracy." But reforming the civil service would mean turning on many of those who put him in power. "There is one very bold thing that can be done," says Andrew Feinstein, a dissident former ANC member. "That's saying: 'No more jobs for pals...
...Most people at Harvard are focused on traditional forms of normative success and wouldn’t get engaged as undergraduates,” Stallings says. “It’s not even an issue even of being too young, but of jeopardizing chances of success. But I know I will certainly achieve my greatest success through being in love with...