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Hours after Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo flew back to Manila from official visits to the U.S., France and Italy last week, she gathered aides and younger brother Diosdado at her family's home in a swanky suburb, to deliver a shocker. Arroyo declared that her decision last December not to run in the presidential election next May was a mistake. "I got out of the race, but what did I get?" she said. "I've decided to accept whatever God has intended for me, including the presidency...
...Road to Perdition The Philippines built a 5.1-km highway to take pressure off Roxas Boulevard, a bayside avenue named for former President Manuel Roxas. The new road is called President Diosdado Macapagal Avenue to honor another former leader, father of current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. But when the road's budget went from $9.1 million to $20 million, there was a public fuss and the entire board of the government agency in charge of the project was forced to go on involuntary leave. That's no way to honor the President's father: some are now suggesting the road...
...pretty tough person," she insists, "so for those people (who) underestimate me, that's O.K. with me." She's no stranger to the palace, having lived here as a teenager from 1961 to 1965?her father, Diosdado Macapagal, her hero as parent and politician, was the President. The heavy wood desk in her office was his desk. The programs she espouses?an overarching anti-poverty campaign, empowerment through ownership of land, leadership by example?were also...
...nearly dwarfed by her phalanx of aides and bodyguards as she strides, with her fashion-model smile, into a vast, wood-paneled living room in MalacaNang. She exudes the haughtiness of someone for whom privilege is a birthright: Gloria grew up literally roaming the corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college professor (she taught economics at the Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate...
...clubs. Inside her war room, Arroyo could hear the ominous battle din: the bursts of warning gunfire, a tempest of stones thwacking police riot shields, the mob's murderous roar. Arroyo says she has an intimate knowledge of MalacaNang, having lived there as the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Therefore, she knew all the palace's secret passages and escape routes. Outside, police battled rioters for more than 12 hours. More than 100 people were injured, and at least four protesters were killed along with one policeman, who tripped and began firing wildly into the crowd with his revolver...