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...meeting, which stretched into the early-morning hours, took place at the Makito home of Jose Cojuangco, brother of former President Corazon Aquino. While Cojuangco's daughter kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, outlined plans for a new government. (Saycon invited TIME's Nelly Sindayen to witness the meeting.) While more than a dozen businessmen and politicians listened, Saycon phoned a person he identified as a U.S. official in Washington. "You will still be our friend, not China," Saycon assured the man. Saycon then phoned...
Hayek is of Lebanese-Mexican decent and was raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico by her businessman father and opera-singer mother. She began her acting career as the title role in “Teresa” (1989), a hugely popular telenovela (Mexican soap opera), and later rose to Hollywood fame...
...people's wrath was a military regime. Now it's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, re-elected in a landslide victory just a year ago but vilified in recent months by many of Bangkok's residents. Demonstrations in the capital have become a weekly feature, led by a businessman-turned-political opponent of Thaksin, Sondhi Limthongkul, whose rallies draw tens of thousands. Vasan is a regular. An artist, he sketches caricatures of Thaksin as Hitler (sporting moustache and swastika) to hand out, and reads poems and sings songs to warm up the crowds before Sondhi takes to the stage...
...level of polarization afflicting Haiti today makes national reconciliation a tall order. Some presidential candidates have already made it clear that should Pr?val win, they will not support him. Most aggressive is businessman Charles Henri Baker, running second in the opinion polls. Pointing to his rival's 1996-2001 tenure, he said, "Nothing positive was done for the country under his leadership. I will watch him closely. If things go the democratic way, great, but if he is back to his own ways, we're the opposition." Another leading contender, 75-year-old political science professor Leslie Manigat, says Haiti...
...definitely no wiser, returned to the fray with a third film, Les Bronzés 3: Friends For Life. "This movie is like reuniting with old friends - both for fans, and those of us in it," says actor Gérard Jugnot, who plays Bernard Morin, a small-time businessman with upper-class aspirations. "In 1978, we were just trying to create these amusing, farcical situations and characters. Little did we know that with time and spreading popularity it would become a social phenomenon." Like its predecessors, Bronzés 3dispatches its callous characters on vacation where a minimalist plot...