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...fueled by luck as well as ambition. She became Speaker a year later, when Dragoljub Marsicanin, a Kostunica aide, was forced out of the post. Since then she has presided over often fractious legislators with a gentle but firm hand. It hasn't been easy. She has had water thrown in her face and once had to order security staff to eject several unruly M.P.s. But she never lost her cool. "Maybe they thought I wouldn't be strong enough to stand up to them because I'm a woman," she says. "They were wrong." During the Milosevic years, Micic...
...Mostly, though, the Minsk Club is all about the rallies, where aficionados ride out to the countryside to roast pigs and swap stories. It was at a recent gathering that enthusiasts sacrificed a reviled Honda Dream to the god of Minsk. Of course, the Dream thrown into the pig-roast blaze was a miniature paper model used in Vietnamese funeral ceremonies, not a full-size scooter. Then again, with devotion like this, it's hard to put anything past these true believers...
...years later Amrozi set out to look for him. Ali Ghufron had fallen in with a group of fellow Indonesians living in Malaysia, led by Abubakar and his mentor Abdullah Sungkar, who shared poverty and a militant brand of Islam. Abubakar and Sungkar had fled Indonesia to avoid being thrown in prison by the government of President Suharto for espousing radical views...
...even the student groups Smith and Chapa have been actively involved with have not thrown their full support behind the ticket...
That parity may be thrown off as the season progresses, however...