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...Power demonstration this January, Arroyo has faced plenty of challenges. Predecessor Joseph Estrada insists he's still the real President of the country; a mob of 40,000 anti-Arroyo demonstrators attacked MalacaNang in May, prompting an unsuccessful coup attempt. There has been criticism of the appointment of her businessman-husband's cronies to key government posts, and a high-profile Senate race that required all of Arroyo's personal charisma to stave off a humiliating defeat for her Peoples' Power Party. "My reaction to all this? I think: 'What must I do next?'" she told TIME in an interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power and Gloria | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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