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...Joseph Estrada. But what actually happened behind the scenes to bring about People Power II? And could those very powers - and people - that have brought about the downfall of yet another Philippine President be the same forces that will make it difficult for anyone, including freshly sworn in President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to govern the Philippines effectively...
...Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has just about everything a Philippine President could desire. Her middle name, for starters, reminds Filipinos of former President Diosdado Macapagal, her dad. (Arroyo says she is looking forward to moving into to her old bedroom in MalacaNang Palace, the presidential residence.) Though 53 years old, she resembles a delicate ingEnue, a plus in the appearance-crazy Philippines. A Ph.D. in economics gives great gravitas. In office, Arroyo intends to be the reverse image of her disgraced predecessor, Joseph Estrada: brainy, focused and, well, sober. "I won't be drinking with my friends," she tells Time...
...when circumstances changed, so, apparently, did those values. On the crowded pavement of EDSA last week, Aquino and Ramos urged Filipinos to disregard the constitution - not because it was flawed, but because it wasn't getting rid of Estrada quickly enough. Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, another member of the Elite, referred to herself as Commander in Chief even before Estrada resigned - and then took the presidential oath, vowing to uphold the constitution...
...rancorous Senate impeachment trial, had resigned. He appeared to have the votes to survive the Senate action, but the Philippine people had seen enough. They took to the streets peacefully last week, and by week's end Estrada's 2 1/2-year rule was finished and his archrival, Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was sworn...
...couples to get ensnared by one of the many enticing online advertisements for adoption facilitators. But before the Web, there were heart-wrenching ads in phone books and newspapers. And there was fraud too. "Abuse in adoption is not new, and it's not caused by the Internet," says Gloria Hochman of the National Adoption Center, based in Philadelphia. "It's caused by the fact that there are many more people who want healthy babies than there are babies." The Internet has made the adoption world more efficient, for ill and for good. It's now easier for con artists...