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...there were only two female senators, so female attendance in the Senate has vastly increased, perhaps indicating a trend, but because of their voting power, women should compose far more than 9 percent of the Senate. More importantly, why, when the world has seen Benazir Bhutto, Golda Meir, Corazon Aquino and Kim Campbell, has America never even had a serious female candidate for president? Is the answer that the American mindset hearkens back to the ancient conception of a woman as the passive matter and not the active form? Or is 77 years not enough time since gaining suffrage...
...wanted to show our displeasure at the lack of objectivity of Freedom House," said Alejandro del Rosario, spokesman for the Philippines' U.N. delegation. "How can they say we are 'partly free'?" He said his country had been a full-fledged multiparty democracy since the 1986 election of Corazon Aquino as President. To justify the rating, the Freedom House report cites killings, torture and kidnappings in rural parts of the Philippines by the paramilitary forces deployed to control communist insurgents...
Their parents were bitter opponents, but Kris Aquino, 23, and Ferdinand (``Bongbong'') Marcos Jr., 36, have turned the other cheek. The daughter of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino invited the late dictator's son, who is now a Congressman, onto her Manila TV talk show. ``Did you hate us?'' she asked meaningfully. ``Maybe in the beginning,'' he admitted. After a chat, they kissed politely. Corazon Aquino is reported to be ``very, very upset'' about the encounter on the show, but Bongbong's mother Imelda declared, ``The older generation has a lot to learn from their children...
...course, Burton had known already. She first arrived in Beijing as bureau chief in 1988, following stints in Los Angeles, Boston, Paris and Hong Kong. She was best known for her coverage of Filipino leader Benigno Aquino's assassination (her tape-recording of the shots that killed him became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton...
...Struggles for Life and Justice: Feminist Theology from Latin American Women." Maria Pilar Aquino, professor, theological and religious studies, University of San Diego. Sperry Room, Andover Hall...