But Mr. Connal explained his success differently, Mr. Vitale recalls, once telling him that it stemmed from his "enthusiasm, knowledge and candidness" as a sportscaster.
The changing nature of Indonesian government - from the candidness of the presidency (Wahid's propensity to shoot his mouth off ensures he needs no spokesman) to its comforting humanity (he has been known to doze off during lengthy parliament hearings, only to be pinched awake by Megawati) - is his doing and his alone.
In his characteristic candidness (at least by Nintendo's standards) he apparently confessed that yes, shortly after the GameCube came out they did realize it seemed incredibly toy-like compared to the competition (honestly, that was the least of our complaints about the GameCube), and alluded to a "visually tweaked" DS in the future (thank god).