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...Suharto's former party, Golongan 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...
...Labor will be especially hard pressed in making a case to the comfortable majority of urbanites that things are crook, that the government has to go, and that only Labor will look after them. Perhaps Latham's toughest job will be getting the most comfortable Australians to believe that his "ladder of opportunity" won't be erected at their expense. Although it's probably too late for people to get their heads around it, Latham's family and tax policy, released on Sept. 7, has many worthwhile features - and several that are hard to fathom. There...
Tela O'Donnell, 22, a native of an Alaskan fishing town, is the opposite of the street-toughened Montgomery. Her toughest opponents as a kid were the sheep she wrestled near the log cabin she shared with her mother, a part-time mime. O'Donnell will compete in the 55-kg (121-lb.) division. "She's our free spirit," says U.S. coach Terry Steiner. She's also a wild card: O'Donnell upset the favored Tina George to make the team, and has little international experience...
...Americans continue to die in an increasingly unpopular war—Generation Y is getting to know what it feels like to lose a brother, friend or father in the service. Talk (however unlikely) of reinstituting the draft has been afoot for months. And the weak economy is often toughest on those just starting their careers...
...Kerry's toughest political battle, at least until now, was his 1996 fight for re-election against Massachusetts' popular Republican Governor William Weld. That election drew into Kerry's world the storied, sharp-elbowed media consultant Bob Shrum, who toughened Kerry's ads and message. Shrum made his name as a speechwriter for Edward Kennedy's failed 1980 presidential campaign, and no Democrat who was there will ever forget how Kennedy brought down the house at the Democratic Convention that year with the Shrum-crafted line that "the dream shall never die." It's that kind of magic candidates...