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...there was something inexplicable about the mass phenomenon that rescued the Philippines from a failing dictatorship, there was no doubt when the process began. It was Aug. 21, 1983, on the tarmac at Manila's international airport. On that day, opposition politician Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., 50, returning from three years of self-imposed exile in the U.S., was shot as he stepped off a jetliner into a crowd of soldiers and well-wishers. Though Ferdinand Marcos, the country's authoritarian President, tried to blame communist agitators, one Filipino civilian and 25 members of the military, including General Fabian...
Health care, appropriations, financial reform, global warming: Congress has a lot of work to do. Starting Aug. 3, lawmakers began to decamp en masse from the nation's capital for a five-week break. What gives...
Those who fail to learn from reality TV are condemned to repeat it. One of the thrills of a long-running reality competition like Bravo's Top Chef is seeing which contestants end up making the same old mistakes. As we go into Season 6 (debuts Aug. 19), we've now seen enough aspiring top chefs rise and fall like soufflés to offer some hints for the competitors...
...find it peculiar that Dick Cheney--who has never seen a battlefield in his life--would characterize Scooter Libby's plight as leaving a soldier on the battlefield [Aug. 3]. During the G.W. Bush Administration, I was struck by the fervor for military action from an inner circle who had largely not served in the U.S. armed forces. The odd man out during the drumbeat for war was Colin Powell, whose long military career included serving in Vietnam and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His voice of caution against entanglement in Iraq resulted in his getting pushed...
...thank you for your essay "Dying Together" [Aug. 3]. I find Sir Edward Downes' decision to end his life perfectly rational and objective. To live only because your heart and lungs still work seems to me an inadequate justification for longevity. John Mulholland, ALPHARETTA...