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...quick coup to depose the President. Chief of Staff Reyes and Defense Secretary Mercado had made their fateful call to Estrada after a luncheon attended by all the top commanders. The officers agreed that renouncing Estrada was the best course, in part because some commanders were urging more drastic resolution. If the military did not come to a consensus, there loomed the possibility of factional fighting or, worse, civil war. The group was worried, said Mercado, that "the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] would be divided if no action was taken...
...easy to require neckties, harder to roll back policies. Clinton's high approval rating and Bush's loss of the popular vote make drastic ideological shifts nearly impossible. And so Bush started small on Saturday, using his executive power for the first time to establish a national day of prayer and tinker with ethics rules governing the behavior of White House employees. His first 180 days of policymaking will feature a plan to roll back some Clinton tax increases, but Bush wants to spend more time and energy defining his own agenda - reforming schools, reorganizing the military and funding faith...
...hard to imagine asking a doctor to destroy a part of your brain. For the more than 1 million Americans suffering from Parkinson's disease, however, such a drastic measure--in which an electrode is used to kill tremor-causing neurons--may become necessary...
...much less clear-cut. After the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. military reacted with missile attacks in Afghanistan and the Sudan-by some considered terrorist acts in themselves. Not surprisingly, the reaction to the USS Cole attack in Yemen was much less drastic. In this case, the U.S. is trusting in the Yemen court system to punish the alleged terrorists...
...hard to imagine asking a doctor to destroy a part of your brain. For the 1.5 million Americans suffering from Parkinson’s disease, however, such a drastic measure-in which an electrode is used to kill tremor-causing neurons-may occasionally be necessary...