Word: imelda
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...Congressman, onto her Manila TV talk show. ``Did you hate us?'' she asked meaningfully. ``Maybe in the beginning,'' he admitted. After a chat, they kissed politely. Corazon Aquino is reported to be ``very, very upset'' about the encounter on the show, but Bongbong's mother Imelda declared, ``The older generation has a lot to learn from their children...
...doctors and clergy, which allow some of the best educated members of the community to escape service. The disadvantages of a narrow jury pool that has been worked upon by lawyers determined to seat the least qualified members is evident from Adler's account of the trial of Imelda Marcos, the wife of deposed Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1990 she faced charges in a New York City court of transferring Philippine government money to American banks to finance shopping sprees in the U.S. that bought hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and jewelry for herself...
...equipped to make its way through the complicated financial transactions the case hinged upon. "The net effect on many jurors was panic at their inability to follow the money," writes Adler, who later interviewed the jurors. Unable to sift the complex evidence, they fell back on sheer sympathy for Imelda, who courted it with gusto. Dressed in black, clutching her rosaries, she could be seen at the defense table wiping back tears. Acquitted, Imelda threw a thank-you party for the jurors with roast pig and a belly dancer. She sang Feelings...
...IMELDA MARCOS...
...popular revolt backed by the military. The government of Corazon Aquino had resisted a Marcos return, but her successor, President Fidel Ramos, a cousin of the dictator, judged that enough time had passed. Only 7,000 people from Marcos' home province greeted the body on its return; his widow Imelda had predicted 1 million...