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Burgos' abduction grabbed headlines in the Philippines in part because of his family's prominence during the Marcos era. Arroyo herself called Edita Burgos to assure her that police would pursue the case aggressively. But from the start the investigation seemed to sputter. A week after the abduction, police told...
The military conducted its own internal investigation into the license plate. While that report recommended censuring three of the battalion's officers for failing to keep track of the plate, it did not offer an explanation of how the plate became attached to the car used to snatch Burgos-other...
Advocates of globalization are correct that free trade and free markets have raised average incomes around the world. The World Bank reports that the proportion of people living on less than $2 a day shrank from 67% in 1981 to 47% in 2004. But $2 still isn't very much...
But the Philippines' birth control debate doesn?t turn on economics, which often makes it difficult for human rights activists and policymakers to find common ground. Government and church leaders frame the discussion in Manichean religious terms, as a battle either for or against human life. Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, who...
The five defendants will be asked to enter pleas as part of the arraignment, which is showcasing the Bush Administration's plan to try some 70 of the 270 detainees at Guantanamo by military commission. Sixty print and television reporters were flown to Cuba on a military plane to cover...