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LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; seven days after she assumed emergency powers, stating that the country had faced a "clear and present danger" from groups plotting to oust her; in Manila. The emergency measures, which allowed arrests without warrants, met with heavy opposition from business groups, the Catholic Church, politicians and the President's own economic advisers. "The conspiracy has been broken up and it's time for government to go back to its regular business," Arroyo said in a televised address announcing the lifting of the state of emergency...
...episodes that drove the Faculty to oust its president mainly took place behind closed doors. But professors are facing a backlash in the court of public opinion-, as the response to the resignation drains ink barrels across the country. A piece in The Washington Times called Lawrence H. Summers’ opponents “the Lilliputians guarding their miserable little nests of selfish indifference.” The editor in chief of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, wrote in the magazine that an “alliance of frightened souls and hyped-up orators” chased Summers...
...lifetime” in 2008. Almost exactly a year after CNN announced the cancellation of their talk show “Crossfire,” Begala and Carville released a new book in January, “Take It Back,” a strategy guide for Democrats to oust Republicans and restore Clinton-era politics. “The Democrats are confused,” Carville said to the packed forum that included former Senator Bob Graham, D-Fla. “They sit and don’t know [whether] to wind their butts or scratch their watches...
Patience is not always thebest tactic for corporate chieftains to use when they are fighting those who wish to oust them, but it seems to have worked for Time Warner chairman Richard Parsons in his battle against Carl Icahn. In August, Icahn and a group of investors launched a bid to split up the Time Warner media empire (which includes Time Inc., publisher of this magazine). But Icahn could not win the support of key shareholders, who balked at his plan to oust Parsons and install a new slate of directors as a precursor to a company breakup. Parsons...
...Foreign Minister in the early 1990s. In 2002, on a platform of belt tightening and reform, he led his party out of opposition and into government, and soon joined Spain, then led by José María Aznar, in aligning Portugal with the U.S.-British coalition planning to oust Saddam Hussein from the leadership of Iraq. Under the primary sponsorship of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he emerged in mid-2004 as a compromise candidate for President. Barroso is convinced the services law will pass, though what it will look like once the Parliament's version is reconciled with...