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...surprisingly, Filipino media in the homeland and the U.S. have lit up with Pineda coverage. "Everyone's talking about it," says Marilyn Deleon, 44, a Filipino-American Journey fan in New York City who helped create animated videos of Pineda and other Journey members and posted them online. At Pineda's first U.S. performance with Journey in Las Vegas in March, Schon estimates Filipino Americans made up half of the audience. Some countrymen are already painting Pineda as a kind of national hero. "There's [boxer] Manny Pacquiao, [pool player] Efren Reyes and then there's Arnel," says Kookie Luib...
...appeared on 'Meet the Press' a few times, and he was always a tough questioner but a very knowledgeable and informed and sincere questioner, and someone I think everyone has a huge amount of respect for." - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff...
...about an end to the rule of Mugabe's Zanu-PF is said to be the fears of facing prosecution for the Matabeleland massacres of the 1980s [when Mugabe's government waged an anti-insurgency campaign that led to widespread starvation, thousands of deaths and other atrocities in the homeland of the Ndebele minority]. Would you ever consider an amnesty? The point is that it's the fear of the unknown. It's the insecurity around these people. But we have never used that as a campaign strategy, to say, "Let's engage in retribution." The MDC has never said...
...rescue effort and the outpouring of charity from the Chinese people has taken center stage. Has the country really changed that much? Not really. The two phenomena on display - nationalism and compassion - are related facets of the vast, multidimensional nation that China is. When it comes to my homeland, I feel them both...
Chinese diplomats insist their homeland's ascent shouldn't threaten the rest of the world. They characterize China's emergence as a "peaceful rise," a cuddly if rather dissonant phrase. But no amount of diplomatic niceties can cloak state-funded efforts to win, especially when individual freedoms are suppressed for the greater national good...