Life in the Slow Lane
Tuesday, August 7, 2001
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took just six days to name her new cabinet, after her disgraced predecessor Joseph Estrada was deposed. Her Indonesian colleague, President Megawati Sukarnoputri, prefers to take her time.
Arroyo says she does not like to wait around. But it seems Mega is not so hasty. Indonesia's fifth president will announce her first cabinet next Thursday or Friday, three weeks after she took the oath of offi
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