11. A housewife turned politician, Tanaka won converts with her frank, combative style. 12. Berlusconi, a media tycoon turned politician, said last week that the lira weakness against most currencies had made the cost of foreign players almost prohibitive. 13. Conspicuously absent will be also Gen. Momcilo Perisic, the former Yugoslav army chief turned politician. 14. Radovan Karadzic, the psychiatrist-poet turned nationalist politician, yielded Friday to international pressure to step down from all functions in Bosnian Serb politics. 15. Rebel legislators along with opposition parties and movements accused the former state farm manager turned populist politician of trying to establish a dictatorship. 16. And Slaven Letica, a former Tudjman adviser turned opposition politician, said earlier this week that Tudjman had been put in difficulty by the Dayton agreement. 17. Cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan said the ruling proved the previous government was corrupt. 18. The populist priest turned politician also underscored Thursday he would not accept the post of prime minister under the new president, or any other public office. 19. The source identified him as Daut Haradinaj, the brother of ethnic Albanian Ramush Haradinaj, a former rebel leader turned politician. 20. The Berlusconi-led coalition fell apart last month when the Northern League withdrew after months of bickering with Berlusconi, prompting the business tycoon turned politician to resign. |