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Nearly two years after Aquino won her war of good against evil, the forces of darkness are again threatening to overwhelm the Philippines. Aquino's once unassailable hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she has not been able to usher in paradise. Instead, the threat of apocalypse hangs over the Philippines. As Aquino tries to rid the country of the corrupt legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, an increasing number of Filipinos fear that her government is running out of steam. "We expected decency in government...
...patient way you dig them out of our frozen soil. Dale Uecker flunking his algebra final his senior year and bravely tasting the glories of humiliation ("Tests and graduation don't matter because now I know . . . that the important thing is life itself") and being pulled back from the brink by good gray Mr. Dentley giving him a C ("Basically you understand the material"). David Tollefson and Agnes Hedder breaking up their marriages and running off together to Washington State and, years later, David's daughter-in-law making sure her husband does not burn the poem that won Agnes...
Investors were already poised at the brink of panic, looking for reassurance, when the announcement of a key statistic set them running. The Commerce Department said on Wednesday that the U.S. trade deficit, the closely watched barometer of America's competitive woes, failed to improve as much as investors had hoped: the imbalance between imports and exports fell from the record $16.5 billion in July, but only to $15.7 billion in August. Investors concluded that if a 30% drop in the dollar over the past two years has failed to help cure U.S. trade problems, then perhaps the currency would...
After putting the Crimson on the brink at 14-8, both teams traded several side-outs, before Penn's Stephaine Stance put the match away with a kill...
Both Pica and Pierson pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Pica was sentenced in April to eight to 24 years in prison. But Pierson argued that years of sexual abuse had pushed her over the brink. Last week, a judge sentenced her to six months in jail and five years' probation. "This is not a place I want to be in, but nothing could compare to what I went through," she said last week at , the Suffolk County Correctional Facility. "I just couldn't see any other...