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...Arroyo has seen her popularity plummet since being elected President last May, largely because of unpopular economic moves like new taxes intended to combat the Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...
...promoting literacy. They didn't garner a lot of attention when the President's agenda was working, but they could matter more if his policies continue to sputter. She and all the living First Ladies will donate red dresses this week to raise money to promote her campaign to combat heart disease. She will travel to Jordan later this month to deliver a speech on democracy at the World Economic Forum. And in a gambit previewed by Barbara Bush more than 15 years ago, the President's team will roll out Laura when nothing else is working. When...
...John Kerry built his whole post-convention campaign on bad newspaper headlines about Iraq. The message was: “Whatever I’m offering can’t be worse than this.” Kerry would hoist the reports about Americans killed in combat, and you could almost imagine Democratic campaign aides high-fiving each other as news of another insurgent attack hit the wires. Understandably, hoping that Iraq would fail gave many Americans the impression that Democrats…hope that Iraq would fail. Finally, Bush’s “pessimism” charge...
...even to those determined not to get involved, the reach of the war was inescapable. Xuong Lu did not escape the war's reach. His skill as a machinist meant that the South Vietnamese army asked him to go to combat zones to help repair critical equipment. He would be away sometimes for a month or more at a time, and occasionally witnessed heavy fighting. When her husband was away, Nu sold cigarettes on the streets of Saigon to support their two children. By 1974, Xuong's concerns about the war's course had grown. He had never thought...
...DIED. EZER WEIZMAN, 80, pragmatic, influential former Israeli President; after a bout of pneumonia; in Caesarea, Israel. Wry, caustic and often chauvinistic?he once responded to a young woman wanting to be a combat pilot by asking, "Have you ever seen a man knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country...