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...however politically expedient and however popular with the masses, the decision to pardon Estrada in a nation struggling with endemic corruption strikes many here as deeply cynical. "Of course we'd rather see him in jail," says Alberto Lim, director of the influential Makati Business Council. "They say there's no big fish caught in this country. He was the big fish we caught...
...Sadr calling for a cease-fire, which the ambassador suggested might have come at the behest of Tehran. (Iran may also have had a hand in brokering a truce between the two key Shi'ite militia groups, Sadr's Mahdi Amy and Badr Brigade of the Supreme Islamic Council, which is a key element of the Iraqi government...
...warning calls going to residents, urging them to evacuate. This early and aggressive emptying of the region - a hard-earned lesson of the 2003 fires, which left 20 people dead - likely saved Californians' lives, if not their property. "The issue this time is not preparedness," said San Diego City Council president Scott Peters. "It's that the event is so overwhelming...
...while University Hall and the Undergraduate Council continue to spar over how much of a liability party grants really pose and, more fundamentally, how much autonomy the UC possesses, students and group leaders voiced their concern about a larger and perhaps more troubling trend...
...turn away from a strict alcohol policy coincided auspiciously with another campus project: resurrecting fun at Harvard. As the committee pounded out its new policies, the Undergraduate Council was instituting a fledgling program that would subsidize private parties in Harvard’s dorms...