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...sidewalk outside Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport a crowd is milling in front of the overseas-worker processing office. Dozens of families - some red-eyed, others laughing - hang around, trying to draw out their last moments together. "This is normal," says Amie S. Catigbe, who has just parted with her sister again. "Everybody hugging, crying." She winces. "Sad." On the tarmac, planes are ready to scatter families to Dubai, to London, to Rome, to Hong Kong. Women sit in window seats, bracing themselves for another year, or another three years. As night falls, they watch Manila spread out beneath...
Maybe Pepsi's spiffy new logo will help restore normal service. The No. 2 sodamaker spent more than $1 million developing its latest look and may soon spend as much as $1 billion changing all its vending machines and global signage to the new design. It's the 11th time in Pepsi's 110-year history that the company has revamped its logo, and the first since 1987. Some have likened the look to President-elect Barack Obama's rising-sun-over-the-horizon campaign iconography. Although there's no evidence that Pepsi modeled its logo on Obama...
...Thus far the performers at Pep Rally have been the Harvard Band and a Harvard male a cappella group—quite different from your genre. Are you planning on performing the type of set you would at a normal concert...
...handful of presidential scholars I talked to agreed: announcing your presidential ambitions as an undergraduate is a bad idea. But wanting it? That was a different question. “What JFK once said is that wanting to be president is not a normal ambition,” Carl Cannon told me. Cannon is a journalist who has been covering the White House for the past 15 years, and he said he suspects that “almost all” the people who make it there—or even make it close—have been planning their...
...Deemed "enemy combatants" by the U.S. Government, the hundreds of detainees currently being held in Gitmo (as the base is known) were considered ineligible for the normal legal process that U.S. prisoners are entitled to, and unprotected by the prisoner of war statutes of the Geneva Convention by virtue of being alleged combatants of a "foreign terrorist group" rather than belonging to a standing foreign army. President Bush's passage of the Military Commissions Act in 2006 authorized the use of military tribunals in place of federal courts to try the detainees, and justified the use of some forms...