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...Karya (known as Golkar). However ineffectual Megawati's administration was perceived to be, it was far from idle on the economy?her team is praised for slashing the national debt, stabilizing the currency, lowering interest rates and selling off state-controlled assets. But the toughest reforms?those that might threaten the interests of powerful bureaucrats and business leaders?have been left to Yudhoyono. "The low-hanging fruit has already been plucked," says Tom Lembong, a manager with a U.S. hedge fund with investments in Indonesia...
...diplomats are very infrequent and require top-level approval. But the intelligence blunder?exposing himself to blackmail by making the secret trip?was even worse. "Even if he pulled [the trip] off," says one shocked former colleague, "he would then be totally in Taiwan's pocket because they could threaten to go public with it at any time...
Even with the passage of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) by Congress in 2002, mistakes by the judges threaten to affect hundreds of thousands of voters. In a recent Chicago primary after the implementation of HAVA, 93 percent of provisional ballots cast were discarded, mostly due to election worker mistakes...
...made sound relations with the U.S. the cornerstone of his foreign policy. Last December, Hu made a major speech on "The Peaceful Rise of China," which was meant to signal his arrival as a theorist while assuring the world that China's emergence as a world power would not threaten its neighbors. But Jiang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "forced Hu to tone [the theory] down." In subsequent speeches, Hu has referred instead to China's "peaceful development...
...last week in Jane's Defense Weekly, North Korea is deploying missiles built with know-how gleaned from the subs and from Russian missile scientists. (Russian officials last week denied the country's scientists were involved.) With an expected range of at least 2,500 km, the missiles could threaten the continental U.S.?although some experts doubt the North's aging subs could carry out the operation. Says Hwang Jin Hwan, a professor from the South Korean government-run Korea Military Academy: "Even if they've developed these missiles, they can't hit the U.S. mainland because they...