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...Breaking ranks with her international allies certainly hasn't hurt her status at home, where Arroyo is enjoying an unexpected boost in popularity following a narrow win in May's presidential election. To consolidate support, Arroyo has scheduled weekly town-hall meetings for the next four weeks, during which she promises to rub elbows with the common folk, many of whom have viewed her as ?litist. Says Ellen Tordesillas, a political analyst and newspaper columnist: "By saving Angelo de la Cruz's neck, President Arroyo saved her own neck...
...year-old market is the heartbeat of Jerusalem. Until spring, three years of the intifadeh had brought business to a near crawl as it stoked fears that the 90,000 people who crowd the narrow lanes each week could become targets for Palestinian suicide bombers. Now the market's brisk pulse is back as Jerusalemites respond to five months without a bombing and to the construction of a "separation fence" along the border with the West Bank that they hope walls off terrorism...
Immigrant fictions are always hymns to persistence, to scrambling for a hard, narrow, marginal place in the newfound land. They also depend for their effectiveness on a lack of overt sentiment. And that may be the best thing about Maria Full of Grace. Maria's circumstances may keep changing, but she accepts them and the consequences of her desperate responses to them; she makes no special pleas for herself; she just keeps moving ahead, never entirely sure where she is going. Vulnerable, always obliged to master new difficulties, she elicits our sympathy--even finally our love--without ever suing...
...within the designated Protected Zone because of an agreement between Australia and P.N.G. that tries to preserve age-old practices such as hunting, fishing, trading and ceremonies. ACV Commanding Officer Mark Fitzsimmons, a genial and thoughtful man with a reassuring smile, has been with Customs since 1980. Navigating the narrow channel between Saibai Island, part of Australia, and mainland P.N.G., Fitzsimmons notes the stark differences in wealth among the inhabitants, who are essentially from the same clan. On Saibai, homes have electricity, a barge brings fresh food, and there are roads, street lights and cars. Two nautical miles north, there...
...looked at her a bit incredulously, wondering how she had managed to narrow it down to only one “except...