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After more than a month of vote recounts, lawsuits and allegations of skulduggery, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo finally secured a second term as President at 3 a.m. last Thursday. With her victory over challenger Fernando Poe Jr. certified by a bitterly divided Congress, Arroyo said: "To my detractors, I appeal for unity; to my supporters, I appeal for an open mind ... This is a time for forgiveness and letting go of the past...
...former mayor who was courted by politicians and feared by criminals and cops alike, Somchai was long thought to be beyond the reach of the law. "I used to have rivals," he once told an interviewer, "but they all died." Freed on $250,000 bail, Somchai plans to appeal the decision in the Supreme Court...
...film, which opened in Japan last month, has more in common with this tamer version. "I wanted the movie to appeal to new audiences, not just fans of the original manga," says director Hideaki Anno. The result is a campy movie marked by performances that are so over-the-top you expect the actors to wink at the camera after every line. The special effects also reveal the movie's limited budget. Fight scenes are strangely static, and computer-generated visuals are unpolished. Despite a charming performance from Sato, much of the film seems devoted to giving people a chance...
...allow the possibility that the enemy is motivated by its understanding of God's will lest his critics note that he believes the same of himself. So he portrays the terrorists as heirs of the Nazis and communists: totalitarian in vision, cynical by nature, manipulative in their appeal, certainly not devout. They "couch their language in religious terms. But that doesn't make them religious people," he told a group of religion writers late last month. "I think they conveniently use religion to kill." There are sound, practical reasons for resisting the Holy War framework, but winning a war also...
...those are Catholics whom Kerry never expected to win. "For most Catholic voters, his appeal--and the campaign's appeal--is around issues that are of importance to the Catholic faith: social justice, the death penalty, taking care of the poor," says Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. "Catholics, like most people, take things an issue at a time, and they'll decide on the entirety of John Kerry's record and the plan that he puts forward...