Democracy is now Indonesia's long-run blessing and short-term curse as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a year into his five-year term, struggles to trigger the economic growth that will salvage his populous country and, in the meantime, his own political skin.

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If there is some kind of "curse" against sitting senators who become president, let's hope it's broken in 2008.

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The curse of it -- at least for the one person every four years who is elected president -- is that there's no way to turn it off.

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