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...Filipino, I am humbled by Lee's statement, "I see the marketplace of ideas, as in the Philippines, and I see chaos." It is true that under President Ferdinand Marcos, freedom was suppressed and an oligarchy was in place. Now we are free to speak up, and we have hundreds of rallies a year, sometimes with water cannons in our faces. But recent events have shown that politics in this nation has become overwhelmingly toxic. Hushed tones in coffee shops sometimes say, "We miss Marcos." Singapore is lucky to have a strong founder like Lee. He made mistakes...
...FRANZ FERDINAND...
...Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better; $13.49 These disco-loving Scottish art-school punks spend much of their second album boasting of their badness. Singer Alex Kapranos is blessed with Mick Jaggeresque persuasiveness-Evil and a Heathen and I'm Your Villain would be musts on any syllabus of "Songwriting for Cads"-but he's also growing in ways that suggest depth. The fast songs have more than one musical thought (some even scoot past the 3-min. mark), while the slow ones have the courage to be pretty (Fade Together) and vulnerable (Eleanor Put Your Boots...
CORAZON AQUINO 1986 Former President of the Philippines; she ousted Ferdinand Marcos...
...mail—dated October 25 and forwarded to the Currier House open list with the name of A.D. President Ferdinand C. Martignetti ’06 written at the bottom—the author attempted to explain a recent crack-down by the A.D.’s graduate board. The punishment included a three-week ban on “females”—I assume the author meant women but perhaps the ban included females of other species too—on Thursday and Saturday nights. The e-mail read...