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...NOTEBOOK Taiwan: SARS Gets Loose Japan: Searching for the Stork Bhutan: Pax Interrupta Eulogy: Blas Ople Milestones Letters...
...Mohamad raised the extraordinary prospect of expelling Burma from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) if the Nobel peace laureate isn't freed. The frustrated Prime Minister says the junta's continued intransigence "has affected our [ASEAN's] credibility." Mahathir's comments were echoed by Philippine Foreign Minister Blas Ople on the sidelines of a meeting last week of Asian and European foreign ministers in Bali...
...they're at best tenuous." Iraq, not surprisingly, charged the Philippines with doing the Americans' bidding. Some regional intelligence sources agree. "I think the Philippines did it to curry favor with Washington," says one senior intelligence official bluntly, echoing opinions that emerged soon after Foreign Secretary Blas Ople went public with the accusations. U.S. President George W. Bush did promise to increase military aid to Manila in a phone conversation with his Philippine counterpart one day prior to the expulsion announcement. Manila, says Senator Rodolfo Biazon, a frequent critic of his country's relationship with the U.S., "is swallowing...
...them, signed them and wrote Asereje for them. Its release in May was timed perfectly, coinciding with the start of the musical silly season. "Just like turrón [yuletide sweets] at Christmas and turkey at Thanksgiving, so we have to have a song for summer," says Jos? Miguel Blas, a DJ at the Madrid station Top Radio. Some observers say that, contrary to the visual evidence, Las Ketchup won't have legs. They've delivered "a typical summer song," says El Pa?s' López. "Like shorts, sandals and bikinis, they disappear without trace once summer is over...
What university pundits have anointed this pair the front-runners? I am not suggesting that their whole candidacies are no more than your newspaper's idle speculation; but The Crimson ought to explain to its readership its reasons behind what might otherwise be considered a blas assertion--one that, while perhaps obvious to editors and reporters, is by no means so to the rest...