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...better question might be: Why now? Estrada is accused of pocketing $82 million of state money in his 31 months in power, but that was merely a good week's work for the monumentally crooked Ferdinand Marcos, who was never even tried. Estrada's booze, women and illegitimate children somehow came off as charming, even in a resolutely Catholic nation. His vices certainly made him a man of the people, not the Establishment. Estrada himself characterized the People Power II revolution that overthrew him in January as the "text-messaging generation" against the "vacationless class...
...that remains loyal to him and hostile to the business, religious and political elites that ousted him. He may take some solace in that the special anti-corruption court that will hear his case has a poor record of convictions on graft charges; it failed to convict former president Ferdinand Marcos, who was accused of abuses far more serious than those ascribed to Estrada...
...that turns a text into a lyrical, almost sensual form of expression. In a country like France, proud and respectful of its rich literary tradition, Luchini has had phenomenal success with his one-man recitations of works by authors ranging from Lafontaine and Victor Hugo to Baudelaire and Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...sorts of more complex moral inquiries. "In the generation that immediately followed the war, the story was told in a rather less nuanced manner. There was black and white, good and evil," says Barry Edelstein, artistic director of CSC (which, along with the Klemperer play, also just staged Ferdinand Bruckner's "Race," an anti-Nazi work produced in Germany in 1933). "As understanding of the period has become more and more sophisticated, stories that seemed marginal, not to fit in the main narrative of the Holocaust, have started to come...
Clinton said he felt our pain, but then he schmoozed with ultra-affluent Hollywood types, acquiesced to the whims of big donors, took things from the White House and retired to extravagant, upper-crust digs. Bill and Hillary Clinton are the American version of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. LINDA A. BIELINSKI Bartlett...