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For the past two weeks, it's been all bin Laden, all the time. He diverted the attention of the world's most outspoken media and critics, allowing several scandal-ridden politicians around the globe to escape an unwelcome glare. PERI's gallery of the luckiest public figures to benefit from bin Laden mania:
ALEKSANDR LUKASHENKO
He's president of Belarus again, winning 75 percent of the vote on Sept. 9. An impossibility, cry his critics. His biggest opponent, the international press, has barely noticed.
GARY CONDIT
Recently on the brink of disappearance himself, the congressman and former boyfriend of a missing intern has just been appointed to a subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security.
THABO MBEKI
Remember AIDS and South Africa's efforts to conceal the crisis? Turns out the government has been ...