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...That scenario wouldn't be without precedent. Arroyo has already survived two coup attempts during her six years in office. She herself came to power after her predecessor, Joseph Estrada, was ousted in a military-backed protest movement dubbed People Power II after the nonviolent revolution that overthrew dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986. In September, the country's anticorruption court convicted Estrada of plundering more than $15 million while in office and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Yet on Oct. 25, Arroyo granted Estrada a pardon on the grounds that he had already served more than six years under house...
...Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and $391,000 for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Sarkozy's official income is also dwarfed by that of European pay champion, Ireland's Bertie Ahern, who pulls in a cool $446,000. Nadine Morano, spokeswoman of Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Movement party, argued that the increase was insignificant when viewed in broader terms. "Think about certain soccer players or television personalities," she said. "The raise requested is in no way unusual." Except, of course, that neither of those positions are paid with taxpayer money...
...January 2005, an accord ended two decades of fighting between the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the south and the government in Khartoum. A coalition government was created and south Sudan was given the option to hold a referendum on independence in 2011. The south Sudanese government was also to receive half of all oil revenues from Sudan's oil (last year, the country exported $6 billion worth of oil). Yet unresolved issues with the peace deal, including oil sharing, deployment of northern troops in southern oilfields and the demarcation of the north-south border, are dangerously...
...promote democracy in Myanmar. “As a leader in human rights and democracy, Massachusetts has an obligation to support the people of Burma,” a senior using the pseudonym Shanti Maug told the council last night. The senior, the president of Harvard Burma Action Movement, said she did not want her real name or photograph made public out of concern for family members still in Myanmar. In recent months, Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has been rocked by a wave of protests against the military government, prompting renewed calls for democracy from some foreign governments...
...mood intensifier. All other aspects of the stage and set were empty, giving the performance a raw, bare-bones aesthetic. Just as Shakespeare’s plays are meant to be performed, not merely read, “Namely, Muscles” asks to be interpreted through movement and dance. Porter seemed to explore the world of the poems naturally and with great pleasure. However, the poet faced greater difficulty in communicating that internal world through her performance. Porter seems to offer the suggestion in “Namely Muscles” that randomness is art?...