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...Magno argued that Filipinos must learn to put their faith in institutions, not in individuals as we are used to doing. But then, amazingly, he stated, "Deep in our guts, we know that a President's phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as [President Gloria Macapagal] Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual." A President's wish or desire, to a common person or especially an election official, is akin to a direct order. And to say that a phone call during vote counting is not unusual is to condone wrongdoing. Siva Ravindran Bombay...
TIME reported on the embattled presidency of Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the vote-rigging scandal that has prompted public protests and calls for her resignation...
...President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo won the 2004 election by a margin of 1 million votes. She must not give up the good fight. Arroyo is my President. I decline to believe the malicious claims of the opposition and noisy minorities. The only viable course for Arroyo is to hang on to the presidency. If she heeds the call to resign, she will have surrendered to the whims of a mob. Brodrick H.H. Tabay Talisay City, the Philippines...
...oneness in this country and bolstering his popularity. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired her flexibility in the court's contentious decisions. Justice O'Connor eschewed rigidity in favor of nuance in each controversial case, and the U.S. has been the better for it. Gloria Kottick Iowa City, Iowa...
...GLORIA KOTTICK...