Word: corazon
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...your heroes, people who influenced you, inspired you? My father is obviously one; his ideas, his philosophy, have guided me along. I'm very much my father's daughter. But a lot of people inspire me. I have great respect for the good former Presidents of my country. Corazon Aquino inspires me very much, being a woman leader and all. She was able to fend off seven coup attempts and emerge with a strong institution that she was able to pass on to her successor to help bring the economy back on track...
Simpson was the first woman named Person of the Year (she would be followed by, among others, Queen Elizabeth II in 1952 and Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined...
...they want us to present evidence today," he says, "we can do so." That might not be a bad idea. The pro-Erap crowd, which includes Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, a hero of the original People Power movement who was also accused of coup-plotting against former President Corazon Aquino, is calling for People Power III to bring Estrada back to power. Enrile's crowds are far smaller than the 700,000 people who poured out in January to get rid of Estrada. Nonetheless, it's a dramatic gesture of sympathy for the first Philippine President to be tossed...
...visiting family members. Afterward, we climbed into the car and toured the revolution. My family enjoyed roaming the fortified hotel with machine-gun toting soldiers and opportunistic, barong-clad politicians wearing heavy gold jewelry. In the next three years, a string of coup attempts nearly toppled the government of Corazon Aquino. This has been one of the unintended and unfortunate legacies of People Power: that a coup, popular or otherwise, is considered a legitimate - glorious even - way to transfer power...
...fact are among the most patient people in Asia. The original People Power revolution, for example, was the culmination of more than two years of anti-Marcos street rallies. The second interpretation of events is that the people were driven by moral indignation. The forces of righteousness, represented by Corazon Aquino and Catholic prelate Jaime Cardinal Sin, rallied the masses against a President up to his neck in booze, broads and below-the-counter business deals. This analysis has appeal in the predominantly Catholic Philippines, and Aquino and Sin knew...