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...SENTENCED. Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, U.S. Marine; to 40 years in prison; for raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in the back of a van in November 2005; in Makati City, the Philippines. Three U.S. soldiers and a Filipino driver were cleared of complicity in the attack on the woman, who testified she was too drunk on the evening of the assault to consent to sex. Smith is the first American marine to be convicted of rape in the country since 1998, when the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement, which in part governs the treatment...
...insist on that timing? I'm saying we have 10 months, maybe 12 or 15?that's what the country can probably stand. Look at our peso, our credit ratings, look at the poor below. [He points from his 26th floor window to the streets and slums of Makati.] How urgent...
...every President. It has been said that for evil to triumph, it is enough that good men do nothing. Unfortunately, the Philippines has millions of good men doing nothing. When we survive this crisis, I hope that TIME will have something positive to tell the world. Jaime W. Hermogenes Makati City, the Philippines...
...Purisima's remarks followed a week of calls for Arroyo's resignation from such high-profile organizations as the Catholic De La Salle University, the University of the Philippines College of Law, and the leaders of the country's 13 million Protestants. On Friday, the blue-chip Makati Business Club joined the chorus, as well as former President Corazon Aquino, the heroine of the 1986 People Power revolution, who said the present crisis was "crippling the government and endangering the nation...
...constitutional convention or new tax laws. The country will be stable only when graft, nepotism and all forms of corruption are tossed into the waste bin. Arroyo has the makings of a great President if only she would act with faith, honesty and patriotism. Albert Tan Makati City, the Philippines...