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...Overall, the situation was generally peaceful except for some untoward incidents.' AVELINO RAZON JR., deputy director of the Philippines' national police, on May 14's national elections, during which at least three people were killed in shootings and a grenade attack. At least 126 people have died in election-related violence in the past four months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...with Christianity. Not all Christians are nice people, and not all democracies are nice places to live. In fact, some of them may even show unusually aggressive behavior toward others-in the name of democracy, of course, just as was done in the name of Christianity in the past. Avelino Sousa-Poza Phalaborwa, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...with Christianity. Not all Christians are nice people, and not all democracies are nice places to live. In fact, some of them may even show unusually aggressive behavior toward others - in the name of democracy, of course, just as was done in the name of Christianity in the past. Avelino Sousa-Poza Phalaborwa, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rise of a New Superpower | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

Today, when the western reposes in the Boot Hill of movie genres, and the acquisition of the West can be seen as a century-long act of aggression, serious films are more likely to question gun love than to celebrate it. In Aric Avelino's American Gun, a film shown at the Toronto Film Festival last week, the gun is seen as a virtual urban plague that ends young lives, sunders families and turns schools into maximum-security prisons. Andrew Niccol's Lord of War imagines that a Ukrainian-American named Yuri (Nicolas Cage) could rise through the arms-dealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Sticking to Their Guns | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...have nothing against Cory Aquino's running for President of the Philippines. But how will she persuade voters to entrust the highest position of the land to a woman who has not held any public office? Being the widow of a brilliant man does not make her brilliant too. Avelino U. Falcon Madrid, the Philippines Demoted Rembrandt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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