Under intense criticism for his style of leadership and in particular for his economic management, Mr. Wahid has announced he will name a new, more professional, governing team.
With the completion of his cabinet selections today, President-elect George W. Bush has put forward a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's.
The speculation about teams losing "Bird" rights seems to be based on a misreading of one particular provision governing teams that move into the luxury tax.
Departments have been cut as vice chancellors and governing teams wield the axe in line with the preferences of the Whitehall pay – or policy masters.
Even as aides are still closing his campaign headquarters and just beginning to assemble a governing team, they are fending off interest from foreign governments eager to take the measure of the next president and trying to avoid tying him to the departing administration.
He has been an essential player on Mr. Putin's governing team for two decades.
Democrats have complained of the presumptuousness of George W. Bush's cabinet-making, but yesterday Al Gore indicated that he, too, was assembling a governing team.
But his governing team has also made mistakes, with a series of provocations that have resulted in Greece finding itself dangerously isolated in Europe.
Mr. Kudrin was an essential player for more than a decade on the governing team that Mr. Putin initially put together while president, and his departure has called into question the viability of the new leadership arrangement.
These recommendations resembled less the makings of a contemporary governing team than a colloquy in the lush, wood-paneled conference room at the Council on Foreign Relations, a research institute where Mr. Gelb, 73, is president emeritus.
