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SACKED. PHILIPPINE MARINE BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANCISCO GUDANI, and LIEUT. COLONEL ALEXANDER BALUTAN, by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, for flouting a presidential order prohibiting military men and government employees from appearing before a Senate committee investigating allegations of electoral fraud in 2004's controversial presidential election; in Manila. Arroyo has been under fire since audio tapes, apparently of her speaking to an election commissioner during the vote counting, were released in June, but an impeachment attempt died in the House of Representatives last month. Gudani told the Senate panel last week he was removed from his post in Mindanao for attempting...
...late '90s, Lindstrom was talking about the idea of a scholarship program with his boyfriend Carl Strickland (who is 29 years younger) and with his old friend John Pence, a San Francisco gallery owner and former social aide to Lyndon Johnson. One night in 2001 at Lindstrom and Strickland's home--which they call the Point because it sits on a promontory on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe--the three christened the Point Foundation. Since then, some 5,000 young gays have applied, and 47 Point scholars have been named...
Monday, Oct. 31. “Come Back to Afghanistan: A Californian Teenager’s Story.” Hyder Akbar was a teen living in a suburb of San Francisco before his father became Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s top spokesman. 6:30 p.m. Harvard Book Store...
...Lake George, New York, U.S. To Rebuild - or Not Walter Isaacson's viewpoint "How To Bring the Magic Back" [Sept. 12] stated that New Orleans "needs to restore itself authentically rather than produce a theme-park re-creation." A fire reshaped Chicago's destiny, and an earthquake remolded San Francisco. Now, in the wake of a hurricane disaster, New Orleans can have its future written by people like Isaacson. Why not have him serve on a steering committee with other esteemed natives to help rebuild? Brett Harwood Maplewood, New Jersey, U.S. It is deeply disturbing to hear cheerleading...
None of this was on Matt and Andrew’s minds as they stood outside the bar in Nashville, trying to figure out where to go next. Sure, Matt is from Long Island, Andrew just north of San Francisco, and between them they have only ever lived in sky blue, major metropolitan areas. But by that night in late July, all that stuff in the middle was starting to feel like what it is: their country...