But barring an economic miracle, she is also about to become the nation's popular authority on how to tackle our soaring welfare bill.
Silberman is far more critical of Kanner, an ambitious émigré to the US who would become a popular authority on child rearing.
With a constitution tailored to bolster Mr Ben Ali, a sitting parliament packed by the RCD, and institutions such as the police and courts deeply compromised, the mechanism for the kinds of sweeping change demanded by many Tunisians is not there.Opposition forces, fractured by years of repression and manipulation, are not much help, and lack figures with popular authority.
Neither faction had the popular authority to rule, but, as Nasser imposed martial law and eliminated political parties, the contest narrowed to a choice between a military society and a religious one, either of which would have been rejected by the majority of Egyptians, had they been allowed to decide.
Klaus argued that a directly elected president would have greater popular authority and that this could undermine the Czech Republic's parliamentary system of government.
The behaviour could be particularly prevalent if the person in question was a popular authority figure.
Governor Blagojevich appointed Mr. Burris from his own, strange, gubernatorial netherworld in which he has legal authority but no moral, ethical or popular authority.
Stunned by the popular response, authorities set up a fast-track process to hear the case.
"Martyrdom operations are legitimate, and they are among the greatest acts of combat for Allah's cause," said Bashir bin Fahd al-Bashir, a Saudi preacher and one of Al Qaeda's most popular religious authorities, in a recent sermon.
On Friday, he discussed how he was able to obtain digital certificates from popular certificate authorities merely by picking up the phone.
