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President Gloria Arroyo has cracked down on opposition leaders following Monday's attempted storming of the national palace. How will this affect her chances in the congressional elections scheduled...
Protests over the arrest of former President Joseph Estrada on corruption charges appear to have plunged the Philippines into a political crisis. Demonstrators are engaged in fierce clashes with the authorities, and President Gloria Arroyo is arresting opposition politicians, saying she's putting down some sort of attempt to seize power. What's happening in Manila right...
Despite his arrest on serious corruption charges, former Philippines president Joseph Estrada may yet elude prison - and not simply because of the merits or demerits of the case against him. Estrada, who was deposed in a constitutional coup in February and replaced by his vice president, Gloria Arroyo, was arrested Wednesday after police prevailed in scuffles with thousands of Estrada supporters gathered outside his home. Prosecutors allege that the former action-movie star, who campaigned for the presidency as a populist champion of the poor, had illegally amassed some $80 million during his presidency. The charge of economic plunder carries...
...Losers SOPHIE RHYS-JONES Prince Edward's wife cocks up royally. A tabloid captures her on tape calling Cherie Blair "horrid, absolutely horrid, horrid, horrid" GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Muslim separatists promise her the head of a hostage as a birthday gift. For Christmas, however, they're giving her a new bedroom set SURVIVOR II Australian authorities bristle when reality show members swipe coral souvenirs. They become disgusted when hungry contestants eat the coral...
...precisely where I would put it (anchored safely behind Germaine Greer and Naomi Wolf). I bought the book and surreptitiously devoured it, laughing ruefully at Bridget's travails, her occasional public drunkenness and her misadventures in the great world of weight loss. Casting guilty glances in the direction of Gloria Steinem's memoirs, I empathized utterly with Bridget's quest for a man who is, as she so eloquently put it, "utterly and completely shaggable" - and I understood completely when she fell apart after a particularly humiliating breakup...