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...QUESTIONS: Gloria Steinem...
...Philippine Supreme Court; in Manila. The popular actor faced disqualification from the race, because his mother was American and not married to his father at the time of his birth in the Philippines. The latest survey by pollster Social Weather Stations shows Poe neck and neck with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ahead of the May 10 election...
...fire raged for nine hours, destroying 2,500 dwellings and leaving 22,000 people without shelter. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo rushed to the scene in jeans and a shirt and ordered the survivors to be evacuated to government buildings. (Arroyo, who is running for election this year, also distributed T shirts emblazoned "Gloria loves me.") Hours later, she and Manila Mayor Lito Atienza announced their intention to build a settlement for the victims. When?and if?that will happen is unknown...
...cramped, cluttered home of Gloria Tapia and Victor Hernandez sits half a block off the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles. The couple, illegal immigrants from Mexico who became U.S. citizens through an amnesty program, raised six American-born children in the city. Today their two-bedroom bungalow is home to 11 people representing three generations and is the hive of activity for the extended family. Here, each relative feels the absence of Jose Cesar Aparicio, a reservist serving in Iraq, in a different way. Gloria, 51, misses her son, her confidant. Of all her children, she says, Cesar...
...Gloria had an American flag put up outside the house to honor her son, but inside, the family's patriotism is mixed with dismay. "I don't know what this war is about," confesses Gloria. Says Victor, 68: "We have to defend the country. I'm proud of Cesar." But, he adds, "I see the news. I'm scared." Commenting on the arrest of Saddam, Martha says, "We're glad they got him. I hope it's over, but I don't think so." Victor Jr. pitches in: "It's pretty dumb. People are dying when the war is supposedly...