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...Monday, on a highway cutting through a banana grove, a large force of gunmen - reports say around 100 - intercepted the convoy of family members and supporters of Buluan vice-mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, also from a prominent local Muslim clan. They were on their way to the provincial capital to file his candidacy papers for Maguindanao's governorship in next year's general elections. It's a position that Ampatuan's father had occupied unopposed since 2001 and which Ampatuan planned to contest to keep the seat in the family. The Mangudadatu group was herded to what appears to have been...
...table, knowing that it was about time for him to leave. All around him sat relatives from an extended family that had gathered for a momentous occasion: the 90th birthday of Liu's great-grandmother Ling Shu Zhen, the still spry and elegant matriarch of a sprawling clan. But Liu had to leave because it was time for him to go to school. This Saturday, as he does every Saturday, Liu was attending two special classes. He takes a math tutorial, and he studies English...
After his father's death, Marroquín suffered from depression. Landing in impoverished, war-ravaged Mozambique as his family sought refuge, he contemplated suicide as he considered how far his clan had fallen. The family's troubles continued in Buenos Aires. Escobar's widow, now known as Maria Isabel Santos, started a real estate business, but her accountant learned her true identity and tried to blackmail her, Marroquín says. His mother reported the extortion attempt but was forced to reveal her ties to Escobar. Startled Argentine authorities abruptly detained Santos, who was held for 18 months...
...That rightist domination within EPAD, opponents say, will similarly produce a pro forma election of Jean by people who view him as the second coming of his father - and the right's potential star in years to come. "This is the appropriation of a country by one family and clan," said Socialist legislator Michèle Delaunay. "The Sarkozy clan is taking the entire region into its grip, on the money vault that the richest department in our country represents," accused Socialist lawmaker Manuel Valls. (Read "France May Put Warning Labels on Airbrushed Photos...
...years as Prime Minister, from 2001 to 2006, earning a reputation as a reformist who reinvigorated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2005 election around the issue of privatization of the national postal system. Now lending his voice to the iconic Ultraman King character, the elder of the clan on the television series Ultraman, Koizumi will take his leadership to another level, in film and outer space, with lines like "Rise again, warriors of the Land of Light! For peace and justice!" Such is a rallying cry Koizumi's old party could probably use about now, having suffered...