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...Corazon Aquino's life lent itself to maxims, but two hard-nosed ones seem particularly worth pointing out. First, political sainthood is a gift from heaven with a Cinderella deadline - once past midnight, you are a pumpkin. Second, personal virtues are never a guarantee of effective or successful governance. What was truly shocking about Aquino's tumultuous six-year term as President of the Philippines was that those maxims proved untrue. Midnight always threatened Aquino but never struck; and she was a good woman whose goodness alone, at the very end, was what proved enough, if only by an iota...
...exact opposite was foretold by the husband whose murder she vowed to avenge and whose political legacy she promised to preserve. Anyone who succeeded Ferdinand Marcos, Benigno Aquino declared, would smell like horse manure six months after taking power. The residual effects of the dictatorship of Marcos and his wife Imelda, he said, could guarantee no success - only disaster, despair and failure. (See Aquino's life in photos...
...Aquino's arrest comes little more than a week after Jabrai J. Copney, 20, also of New York City, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to all five of the charges he faced in connection with Cosby's death. Copney, who turned himself in to police on May 21 and has since been held without bail, has been charged with all four of Aquino's crimes, as well as attempt to commit a crime. Welford said he could not comment at this time as to why Copney faces the additional charge...
...Jiggetts, 20, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was arrested on June 9 in connection with the shooting. Jiggetts, who refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face charges and is currently jailed without bail in New York, was indicted Thursday by a Middlesex grand jury on the same charges as Aquino, allowing his case to be heard in Middlesex Superior Court. An arraignment date for Jiggetts has not yet been set, and Welford said that prosecutors are continuing to seek a governor's warrant, which requires the signatures of both the Massachusetts and New York governors, to extradite Jiggetts...
...Aquino, Copney, and Jiggetts—none of whom were Harvard students—allegedly participated in what investigators have called a failed "drug rip" that left Cosby, 21, dead. Shots were fired, and Copney, Jiggetts, and Aquino fled the scene and returned to New York City via bus that evening, investigators say. Four ounces of marijuana, wrapped in a "bloody work shirt," were found near Cosby after the shooting...