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...PROHIBITED. RIO FERDINAND, 25, star footballer for England and Manchester United; from playing for eight months after missing a random drug test in September; in Bolton, England. The Football Association ban, which begins in January, will force the world's most expensive defender to miss the rest of the season and the 2004 European Championship, although his club said it would appeal...
...BLAS OPLE was the guy Ferdinand Marcos dispatched to Washington just before he ordered tanks to try to quell Manila's People Power revolution. In a starched barong tagalog and with an extraordinary baritone, Blas vainly lobbied Capitol Hill that Marcos wasn't all that bad. One day, he admitted to the press what he shouldn't have: that the Philippines under Marcos was in an "interregnum." Blas, a big talker and determined erudite, loved that word...
...Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the death of thousands of innocent civilians." NAVANATHEM PILLAY, presiding judge of a U.N. tribunal that convicted Ferdinand Nahimana of using his Rwanda radio broadcasts to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority...
...Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians." Navanethem Pillay, presiding judge of a U.N. criminal tribunal, convicting Ferdinand Nahimana of using a Rwandan radio station to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority...
...novel that follows is set in the Philippines under strongman Ferdinand Marcos?as was Dogeaters, Hagedorn's first novel?but the themes go back to Magellan: explorers turn out to be conquerors, Westerners are still bending Philippine destinies and lechery continues to bind colonizer and native...