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...Friday afternoon, TIME.com spoke with four death penalty experts. We asked them how the prosecution?s blunder might affect the public's perception of the ultimate punishment...
...their suffering hero on a too-thin mattress in a too-small cell with malfunctioning air conditioning, demonstrators congregated at the edsa shrine, which commemorates the anti-Marcos People Power revolution of 1986. Arroyo's right-mindedness, in the short term anyway, began to look like a public relations blunder. What's more, it might scare investors away. Two days prior to the arrest, Moody's Investors Service issued a "negative" rating for the Philippines, due to continuing political instability. Following Estrada's detention, both the stock market and the peso stumbled...
...whether she'll go ahead with the election. A lot of the opposition politicians are thinking that she may decide to cancel the elections, in which case there would be a huge uproar. Either that or, if the elections go ahead, she may have made a colossal blunder that could play into the hands of the opposition claims that she?s hounding them...
...think she can do it politically. It would prompt a huge uproar, and the military may not support her. But that would leave her going into an election campaign in the worst possible circumstances, which is why some are saying it was such a colossal blunder. But you have to understand that she had 70,000 of the poorest of the poor in the Philippines clamoring at the gates of the palace, and that?s a scary situation. Even those sections of the military opposed to Arroyo didn't properly gauge the extent of support for arrested former president Estrada...
...flop over no new taxes. Taxation of our citizens is, over time, an insignificant event, but this President's reversal presents long-term and life-threatening consequences that are being ignored under the pretext of U.S. economic viability. While his father's about-face was regarded as a political blunder, this President Bush's decision may facilitate a global environmental disaster. CARY GLICKSTEIN Delray Beach...