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...Because they think that Estrada was their man, and they see him as a victim of what they call the "power elite" - people like Arroryo, the wealthy daughter of a former president, who comes from the caste of people who have always run the Philippines. The intelligentsia and the middle and upper classes support Arroyo, but the poor - and there are a lot of them - go for Estrada. What we're not sure of is the extent to which this division has fractured the armed forces. Arroyo says they?re firmly behind her, but that's clearly not the case...
...Show from Manila's cinemas and leaned on the liberal chairman of the censor board to resign. Then she began having misgivings. The Catholic church and ultra-conservative groups lauded her decision, but her two-month old presidency found itself assailed by powerful former friends, the media and the intelligentsia. She was lambasted for succumbing to "moral terrorism," as one newspaper columnist put it. So, on Monday afternoon, Macapagal-Arroyo cleared her schedule and watched Live Show, alone. "Well, I finally saw it," she told an aide, beaming. "And there's something really lewd about...
...fighting Continental hegemons. Unlike the British tabloids, Cummings never descends to blasting nonexistent Brussels directives that supposedly compel straight bananas and cucumbers. But he does use all the techniques of modern politics - systematic fertilization of grassroots support, instant response to news, slick website, skillful ads - to convince both the intelligentsia and voters that relinquishing a national currency, especially control of interest rates, will lose Britain more than it gains. The key campaign slogan - "Europe Yes, Euro No" - has blunted Prime Minister Tony Blair's push to paint all keep-the-pound forces as crazies who want to pull Britain...
...encouraging the irresponsible and unrestrained duplication of copyrighted material, the intelligentsia at the head of the "revolution" are undermining any confidence in a potentially viable Internet market. If the guerillas get their way, and distribution of music on the Internet becomes free everywhere, only big-name record labels will be able to maintain profits through merchandising, hyping the next teen divas, selling the posters of their glistening, glittering bodies and packing stadiums with screaming tweens. Artists will then be denied even the income that smaller record deals now afford them. Far from creating a musical utopia, the elimination...
...west came a flood of new plant and animal species, all of them also absent from the canonical lists. Help! If Holy Writ and the Big A were wrong, which way was up? For more than a century, things taxonomic went to hell in a handbasket while the European intelligentsia behaved like Chicken Little...