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...center of the confusion, and the controversy, are the human rights activists, whom Aquino admires for their idealism and especially for the faithfulness with which they stood by her husband during the dark days of martial law. Ninoy's lawyer Joker Arroyo is her executive secretary; Ninoy's cellmate Jose Diokno is chairman of the Presidential Commission on Human Rights; Ninoy's friend Locsin is her speechwriter. Many people feel that Aquino is too protective of these advisers and that they are too protective of her. The prime target of these charges is the principled but overworked Arroyo, who sometimes...
That night, Corazon Aquino hardly slept. Seven times she called her executive secretary, Joker Arroyo, with questions. At 8 a.m. she summoned her Cabinet and asked each member what she should do about Enrile. It was obvious, said a staffer, that she had made up her mind...
...only recently learned of the boy's existence. Subsequently Enrile studied law at the University of the Philippines, where he mingled with the Filipino elite. His classmates included Vice President Laurel, whose father had been President during the Japanese occupation of World War II, and Cabinet Executive Secretary Joker Arroyo, the scion of a land-rich family. Enrile has been particularly stung by his exclusion from Aquino's inner circle, which includes Arroyo, one of his most bitter rivals...
...title Demon Box refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow...
...like thinking about such things, it's also a rip-snortin' adventure; I suspect the Joker is coming back in the next issue and I can't wait. Holy Breakthrough, Batman, I think...