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When President Joseph Estrada was deposed in a popular uprising, his followers staged months of counter-protests. Then he was put on trial and the underlying fear was that a heavy sentence for the former action-film star would provoke violent outcries. Today, however, though Estrada received a sentence of life imprisonment, his fans kept calm, taking some comfort, it seems, in the fact that the penalty doesn't mean life in a prison cell...
...court ruled that the sentence would be served at Estrada's estate, a couple of hours outside Manila, where the former actor is currently building a museum about his life in politics and on screen. He has also constructed his final resting place, a brown marble tomb under a solitary banyan tree. Estrada, 70, will, it seems, have a comfortable retirement as he tends his vegetable garden and rice paddies and looks after his ducks and other animals, the same place he has spent most of the six years it has taken for the court to reach a verdict...
...million from the coffers of the second poorest nation in the hemisphere. Transparency International awarded him the dubious distinction of including him in its list of the World's Ten Most Corrupt leaders of all time. (To his credit, he only ranked ninth, ahead of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who stole a paltry $80 million...
...started the match poorly by losing the doubles point. The No. 2 doubles team of juniors Dan Nguyen and Kieran Burke lost to Svigelj and Marc Jaeger, 8-1, and at No. 3, co-captain Scott Denenberg and freshman Michael Hayes lost to the Bulls’ Thomas Estrada and Mahmoud Hamed, 8-5. At No. 1 doubles, Valkin and junior Ashwin Kumar picked up Harvard’s lone doubles win with a score of 8-6, coming back from an early 1-6 deficit. “They were very strong,” Fish said...
...right to worry: both Marcos and Arroyo's predecessor, Joseph Estrada, were toppled by popular protests after the army withdrew support for them. Yet Arroyo's reliance on the armed forces could backfire. "There's a lot of concern from Filipinos about their democracy being rolled back," says Abuza. "These military-driven policies certainly play into those perceptions." Ermita counters: "Don't forget that the commander-in-chief is a civilian, and that there is a chain of command which is strictly followed. You cannot militarize the country because this is a democracy, not a military government...