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...showcase nature of Estrada's first days in jail suggest that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was trying to send a message to several constituencies. The administration wants the Philippine people to believe it's trying to eradicate endemic corruption. And it wants the international community, particularly those who might invest more money if they didn't have to pay bribes right and left, to believe likewise. The Philippines enjoyed several years of improved economic performance under Estrada's predecessor, Fidel Ramos, only to see it wasted by Estrada's erratic leadership. "This is a signal to the international community that...
...People Power III to bring Estrada back to power. Enrile's crowds are far smaller than the 700,000 people who poured out in January to get rid of Estrada. Nonetheless, it's a dramatic gesture of sympathy for the first Philippine President to be tossed in a jail cell. One certainty: when Joseph Estrada stars at his own trial, it's bound to be a ratings...
...emphasized what he calls the "moral lesson" of law enforcement. John Walters, 49, who was chief deputy to former czar William Bennett in the first Bush Administration, believes nonviolent drug offenders should be diverted to treatment on first and second offenses. But he thinks only fear of jail time, be it weeks or months, will get some hard-core addicts (Robert Downey Jr.) into treatment and keep them there...
Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980. (In 1996, referring to violent offenders, Walters said, "I am against the discussion...that there are too many people in jail.") Two weeks ago, in another sign that his heart is with the hard-liners, President Bush asked Congress to allocate $4.7 billion to the federal-prison system, projecting a 32% increase in inmates over the next five years, a jump largely fueled by mandatory drug sentences. Some $40 billion a year is already being spent by federal and state governments to prosecute and imprison...
JENNA BUSH has had a rather eventful freshman year. Her dad got elected President; she used the Secret Service to help bail a drunken buddy out of jail; and last week the University of Texas frosh got busted for underage drinking. Whole seasons of Felicity have been woven out of less. Bush, 19, was cited at about 1 a.m. Friday for drinking from a glass of beer in Cheers' Shot Bar in Austin. Alcohol possession by a minor is a class C misdemeanor in Texas, punishable by a fine or community service. "We respect the privacy of this young woman...