Word: estrada
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...money than Bush wants for prescription-drug and education spending, two issues they believe will play well for their party in the November elections. And Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have targeted four more conservative nominees they might block for the appeals court: Jeffrey Sutton in Ohio, Miguel Estrada in the District of Columbia, D. Brooks Smith in Pennsylvania and Priscilla Owen in Texas. Dan Bartlett, the White House communications director, says Bush intends to fight for those nominees, but then he also insists Bush fought hard for Pickering. To counter the Democrats, the President plans to spend...
...spent more than a year teaching demolition in MILF camps. He helped organize and detonate a series of bombings in Manila 14 months ago that killed 22. An anonymous caller told Philippine police that the blasts were retaliation for raids on MILF camps ordered by Arroyo's predecessor, Joseph Estrada. The police traced the call to al-Ghozi's phone...
...This isn't just the usual rumormongering. The stakes are frighteningly high. Another EDSA would be disastrous, no matter who took over. The country is struggling to emerge from the damage Estrada caused to Ramos' reforms at home and investor confidence abroad. Another People Power, and the nation's image could be downgraded from shaky to basket case...
...respond to image and inspiration than intellect. To her credit, she has tried. On several occasions, she's traveled to Tondo, a rank, perilously crowded slum that has essentially been Manila's garbage dump for a decade. On her first visit, she was greeted with boos and pro-Estrada chants. Instead of fleeing, though, she scrambled ahead of her security detail and climbed the cramped stairwells to the squalid apartments and landings from which the voices emanated: "Can I come in?" she shouted, "Let's talk about this. Why are you so angry with me?" They were angry because...
...there a place for leniency for former President Estrada? We have to talk, in terms of healing, about two things. One is the pursuit of justice. The other is how one handles the personal circumstance of Estrada. In terms of the pursuit of justice, we have to be devoted to that. There is an obligation there. But I am sensitive to his personal circumstance -- that's why I bothered to visit him when he was in detention. He was shown, though, having his photo and fingerprints taken, and that was not supposed to happen. Somebody smuggled the images...