Picking nits here, but Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri assumed the presidency after Abdurachman Wahid was forced out; she was chosen as vice president. To complicate things, her party won a plurality of the vote that year (1999) but she was so politically inept she couldn't create a coalition in the legislature that would support her; Wahid could. She proved utterly devoid of skill as a politician and was a miserable failure. Her popularity was solely based on opposition to Suharto's New Order and that she was Soekarno's daughter.
I never read the whole thing. And I only do the crossword on Monday. And every month I have to haul half a pickup full of paper to the nearest free recycling location since I live 11 miles from town, and 90% of it is the NYT. Oh well Paul Krugman is worth it.
The only plus side of travel, for me, is that I can buy the NY Times and read the whole thing. I love it! (we live in a small town; we'd have to have it mailed to us and since we only check mail a couple times a week, it's not worth it to get it). When I get thru security, first thing I do is go to the notions store and get a bottle of water, a bottle of diet coke, and a NY Times.
Shillary, that creep should just go away in her Entitlement Gulfstream IV, provided by Jaime Dimon & Llloyd Blankfein.
http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/bill…
Croatia's female president is a crypto-fascist. I wouldn't be so excited just because she's a woman.