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...trained lawyer and, according to analysts, a competent former defense secretary. Teodoro's dismal placing in the polls - he trails the top three candidates - may change as he gets more into the public eye. "He offers firm leadership and understands the security situation," says political commentator Alex Magno, who expects security matters will be a prominent election issue. In the intertwined world of this country's dynastic politics, Teodoro and Aquino are related as cousins from different branches of one of the country's wealthiest landowning families. And on paper at least, there could be five Arroyos in the next...
...rolling around on the ground and touching in ways that made me, if this is possible, uncomfortable while getting beaten up. Five students--all of whom act in his new film about ultimate fighting, Redbelt--took turns pummeling me under the instruction of Mamet's trainer, Renato Magno, who told me later I'd need five years before I could compete with the author of Glengarry Glen Ross. "He trains two or three times a week. If he misses a session, he likes to triple the time," Magno added. "He likes gambling, knives and guns. He drove a taxi." Never...
...tried in absentia for his role in the 2006 violence, but the court case would have had little effect given that the former army commander was still on the run. "Even after the elections, we felt like we were waiting for something bad to happen," says Marcelino Magno, chief of staff for Fernando de Araujo, East Timor's speaker of parliament. "There was a lot of tension building...
...About Filipino Fatalism Political-science professor Alex Magno made several perceptive observations in his Essay "The Perils of Pedestals," about Filipinos' "schizophrenic political culture" [July 18]. But I balked at Magno's conclusion: "After we are done with the ceremonial self-flagellation ... we will settle back to a comfortable regime of elastic rules and mediated processes. It is our culture?and our fate." Can't a culture develop and change for the better? I believe that as we Filipinos continue to learn progressive ideas, adopt modern ways, pursue quality education and experience globalization, we shall arrive sooner or later...
...Magno argued that Filipinos must learn to put their faith in institutions, not in individuals as we are used to doing. But then, amazingly, he stated, "Deep in our guts, we know that a President's phoning an election official when votes are being counted?as [President Gloria Macapagal] Arroyo has admitted doing?is most likely not unusual." A President's wish or desire, to a common person or especially an election official, is akin to a direct order. And to say that a phone call during vote counting is not unusual is to condone wrongdoing. Siva Ravindran Bombay...