President Rousseff's office has made clear that she wins a battle for the remaining wavering votes in congress and survive Sunday's vote to impeach her.
Meanwhile the education secretary Michael Gove's once-prominent focus on new Swedish-style “free schools”—to be funded by the state but run by charities, parents and others—has been wavering.
Setting the candle on the stand, she unlocked the door and in the wavering light she saw Rhett Butler, not a ruffle disarranged, supporting her small, thickset father.
After some wavering by the Thai government, with the fate of the stranded boat, it now appears to have now reverted to a hardline stand of pushing it back out to sea.