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...supporters cheered the 65-year-old widow of the late Philippines dictator after she was sworn into office by Chief Justice Andres Narvasa, the judge who helped unseat her husband from the presidency in 1983 . Best known for her shoe collection, the former first lady -- who is free on bail while appealing a 24-year sentence for graft -- exploited her flair for the impossible by winning a three-way race to represent her native province of Leyte by a landslide 33,000 votes five months ago. Election officials had ruled that Mrs. Marcos was not a legal resident...
...recently as a month ago. "This just keeps getting worse and worse," says New York bureau chief John Moody. "The first thing it will probably affect is the Federal Reserve's plan to buy Treasury bonds from the Japanese. We will look awfully naive using taxpayer money to bail out Japanese banks if those banks are playing games with us. It will also make anybody doing business with Japanese banks very cautious." In addition to pleading guilty today to doctoring records to hide years of losses, Iguchi also pleaded guilty to conspiring with Daiwa's senior management to conceal...
According to Tierney, the man who first allegedly assaulted him is presently awaiting a bail hearing, and is charged with armed robbery as well as assault and battery. The alleged assailant who pulled a knife is also under arrest
...Tokyo the scandal threatened to complicate efforts to ease the three-year banking crisis and rescue eight housing lenders that are wobbling beneath $84 billion of bad real estate loans. Just last week a government report urged the use of taxpayer funds to bail out the banking system. That outraged critics like Hatsuko Yoshioka, the head of Japan's powerful Housewives' Association, an umbrella organization of 391 women's civic groups. Yoshioka wants major banks like Daiwa to commit some of their vast resources to shoring up ailing banks and housing lenders. Says she: "Daiwa Bank, although it lost...
Medicine, he discovered, was too unimaginative to hold him. "To quit medicine to become a writer," he once wrote, "struck most people like quitting the Supreme Court to become a bail bondsman." Yet the medical-school years gave him "a fund of experience and a sense of pace. Things happen fast. I still think it's true that any sense of narrative pacing on my part comes out of the emergency room." Indeed, in 1974 he wrote a movie script about his emergency-room experiences but got no takers in Hollywood. Years later, Steven Spielberg took a shine...