She probably won't have to deal with Congressman Bill Jefferson of New Orleans.

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Though she probably won't do so well next time, she could still prevail thanks to her personal popularity and a recent spurt in GDP growth (despite some spillover from the East Asian financial crisis).

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An extraordinary, somewhat headstrong, woman who lived most of her adult life in Indonesia, she probably could have won a Nobel Peace Price for her work in microcredit, if she had been better known.

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