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...revolution poster girl Mary Ann Singleton in two Tales of the City miniseries (a third will air this year on Showtime). But in her major movies, she's been upstaged by her male co-stars: Truman's Carrey, Absolute Power's Clint Eastwood, Primal Fear's Richard Gere and Congo's primal brutes...
Quick: What do the Congo, the Philippines and the United States have in common? Each is adjusting to political life under a new president whose ascent has been challenged as undemocratic. But President George W. Bush is certainly having the easiest time of it - not surprising, perhaps, since at least he actually stood for election as president, even if his naysayers insist he lost at the polls. And even though the media may be recounting the ballots in Florida, nobody would dream of trying to reverse the result. No matter what they think about how he got there, Bush...
...Arroyo's troubles are small potatoes compared with those of Congo's President (or is he?) Joseph Kabila. In almost every photograph, the 31-year-old army officer appears to be wearing an expression that screams "Help! How did I get here?" Hardly surprising, since his father's assassination last week has propelled him improbably to the presidency of a country that nobody is quite sure still exists, having been effectively carved up by the armies of its neighbors. His inauguration was postponed for a second time Thursday, ostensibly because the country's supreme court was still trying to compose...
...even more remarkable, these illegal immigrants, given lax immigration enforcement, have little reason to fear deportation. Indeed, one of them, Siaka Diakite, an Ivory Coast native, is now pictured in a widely distributed color brochure put out by the AFL-CIO. Says Charles Batchli, a plaintiff from the Congo: "It didn't matter who we were. We are human beings first. The question was, Were we taken advantage...
...Building a democratic state in the Congo would be a start-from-scratch idea, requiring extensive triage and years of benign nurturing by its neighbors near and far. Some of those neighbors, though, may be more inclined to maintain the hollow shell of Congo's sovereignty, while in effect carving it up into regional fiefdoms. A land whose plight once inspired Conrad has long learned the limits of optimism...