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...exact opposite was foretold by the husband whose murder she vowed to avenge and whose political legacy she promised to preserve. Anyone who succeeded Ferdinand Marcos, Benigno Aquino declared, would smell like horse manure six months after taking power. The residual effects of the dictatorship of Marcos and his wife Imelda, he said, could guarantee no success - only disaster, despair and failure. (See Aquino's life in photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Miracle Worker in a Plain Yellow Dress | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...journalist turned politician whose own family was as illustrious though not quite as wealthy as her baronial clan. The marriage would help propel Ninoy's career even as Cory became a cipher at his side, the high-born wife whose social ministrations at smoke-filled political sessions flattered her husband's supporters. Ninoy's popularity soon challenged Ferdinand Marcos, who had been elected President in 1965. And so, when Marcos assumed dictatorial power in 1972, he threw his rival into jail. Corazon then became her husband's instrument, smuggling messages out of prison and raising funds for the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Miracle Worker in a Plain Yellow Dress | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...After the presidency, she basically returned to keeping house and watching over her husband's legacy. But every now and then she would emerge from private life to tell her successors to behave. She helped lead a second People Power uprising to depose the inept government of Joseph Estrada; she also led protests against her former ally, the second woman President of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, to warn her against rewriting the constitution to extend her time in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Miracle Worker in a Plain Yellow Dress | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Besides, if there's anything Ann Arbor won't lack for, it's news. There's already at least one profitable local-news site in town. Mary Morgan, 48, a former News staffer, and her husband Dave Askins, 44, started the Ann Arbor Chronicle last September. It specializes in long-form accounts of local council, school-board and other civic-association meetings. "I hand-tooled most of the HTML myself," says Askins. (He learned on his other site, Teeter Talk - word-for-word transcriptions of interviews with local figures on the couple's teeter-totter.) The Chronicle, says Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ann Arbor Kills Its Newspaper — To Save It | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...less needy, greedy path, fueled more by appetite than hunger. We're introduced to Child as newly arrived in Paris in 1948 with her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci), a diplomat she met and fell in love with in her mid-30s. They are a marvelously believable pair of soul mates; Tucci makes the transition from playing Streep's gay minion in The Devil Wears Prada to playing her lusty spouse look effortless. Ensconced in a beautiful apartment, Julia and Paul eat, make love and eat some more. "French people eat French food every single day!" Julia enthuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie & Julia: Streep, Ephron and the Joy of Cooking | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

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