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...Arroyo painted the pardon, announced Thursday evening, as both an act of mercy and an attempt to bridge the country's deep political fissures. Speaking to a business conference in Manila, she called Estrada's trial and imprisonment "a cause of distraction, recrimination and intrigue." Pardoning Estrada, she added, will promote national reconciliation...
Last week I was given a brown manila envelope that had been entrusted to the University Archives in 1951 by James B. Conant, Harvard’s 23rd president. He left instructions that it should be opened by the Harvard president at the outset of the next century “and not before.” I broke the seal on this mysterious package to find a remarkable letter from my predecessor. It was addressed to “My dear Sir.” Conant wrote with a sense of imminent danger. He feared an impending World...
...decisively in the direction of improving the lives of the millions of Filipinos who are lower income or even below the poverty line...primarily because it also makes good business sense.” For example, Rangan said, more than one million poor residents of eastern Manila now buy clean drinking water from one of Ayala’s subsidiaries. HBS Dean Jay O. Light on Thursday presented Zobel with one of the school’s Alumni Achievement Awards, which recognize “excellence, integrity, and leadership in business and society.” Zobel?...
...abortions by family-planning officials. After escaping from house arrest in Shandong, Yuan Weijing spent nearly a month holed up in Hu's apartment, fearful of being kidnapped and forcibly returned home by the carloads of policemen who stationed themselves outside. Last month Yuan attempted to fly to Manila to receive an honor given to her husband by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. She was allowed to check in at the airport but was then detained, forced into a van and driven back to Shandong, where she is again confined to her home...
...covered the Health and Human Services Administration, Justice and Transportation departments, included a total of $66 billion in discretionary spending and $281 billion in mandatory spending. "This is stuff they want to do without debate and without a vote," DeMint said. To underline DeMint's point, Coburn pulled worn manila cards out of his breast pocket containing printed lists of bill titles and numbers. "There's 80-some that I'm holding," he said, waving them aloft...