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        "id": 1397984,
        "msgid": "a-rare-coincidence-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-10-22 00:00:00",
        "title": "A rare coincidence?",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "A rare coincidence? One day when I was looking at a picture of the robust Philippine President Estrada and his petite Indonesian counterpart President Habibie, I suddenly remembered an article in Asiaweek of Oct. 9, 1998 about President Estrada. Although the article was about Estrada, if you exchange Estrada with Habibie, the Philippines with Indonesia and Ramos with Soeharto, you realize that these changes make no difference and the article still makes sense.",
        "content": "<p>A rare coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>One day when I was looking at a picture of the robust<br>\nPhilippine President Estrada and his petite Indonesian<br>\ncounterpart President Habibie, I suddenly remembered an article<br>\nin Asiaweek of Oct. 9, 1998 about President Estrada.<\/p>\n<p>Although the article was about Estrada, if you exchange<br>\nEstrada with Habibie, the Philippines with Indonesia and Ramos<br>\nwith Soeharto, you realize that these changes make no difference<br>\nand the article still makes sense. That is when you'll agree with<br>\nmy observation.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to repeat what was written in this Asiaweek.<\/p>\n<p>While reading it, don't forget to change all the names as I<br>\nmentioned above. Here it comes.<\/p>\n<p>The opening weeks of Joseph Estrada's presidency would be one<br>\nof stumbles, grumbles and of course lots of laughs, some at the<br>\nPresident's behest, some at his expense. But Estrada is President<br>\nat a time of unprecedented complexity and uncertainty, a scary<br>\nnew era that is testing the skills of the planet's most<br>\nexperienced leaders. Doubters wondered if Estrada has the right<br>\nstuff to be the Philippine's chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>There is real reluctance among many Filipinos to judge their<br>\npresident before he has had a chance to prove himself.<\/p>\n<p>The President has a habit of shooting his mouth off or making<br>\noff-color remarks. This makes it hard for the people to accord<br>\nhim the appropriate Presidential awe. At the same time however<br>\nEstrada's refreshing candor pleases sympathetic crowds.<\/p>\n<p>Estrada is routinely compared to his predecessor, the man most<br>\noften credited with saving the Philippines' economy. Right or<br>\nwrong many people believe he cannot match Ramos' various<br>\nachievements.<\/p>\n<p>One of the charges most often leveled at the president is that<br>\nhe is never really in charge of his administration. These<br>\nallegations arise at least in part because his ministers<br>\ncontradict one another, sometimes on the same afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>SOEGIH ARTO<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
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