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...decision to stay or go may not be Arroyo's. Almost since she came to power, her administration has been buffeted by allegations of corruption every bit as audacious as Estrada's. During the 2004 election, Arroyo was recorded talking on the phone to Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. Her political enemies charged that the oddly oblique conversation concerned the massaging of voting returns - a charge Arroyo has denied. The resulting impeachment attempt in the country's lower house of Congress was blocked by Arroyo's political allies. Her courting of foreign investment has also drawn fire. In early October, Arroyo...
...intrinsic to representative government—cannot be bridged permanently by the good will, intellect, or charm of the powerful. Instead, these managers of political change end up drowning in their own privileges. Because the seat of power is segregated from the general life of the society (phone-calls and letters to Senators do not change this fact) and because the people do not participate directly in decision-making, pathologies and prejudices internal to the operation of power invariably emerge.History is replete with examples of this dynamic: Consider Kwame Nkrumah’s fall from grace in post-colonial Ghana...
...unpleasant but unambiguous. “It was awkward, but I had no personal choice but to disagree with him on the Iraq war,” Leach said. “I thought there were way too many counterproductive dimensions.” Rumsfeld did not return phone messages left at his Hoover Institution office.In his time in Congress, Leach also took progressive positions on the environment and on gay rights. He won an award from the Sierra Club in 1999 and an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach...
...York—with a stop in front of Widener Gate. Additional buses will run on Fridays and Sundays, with the exact number determined by customer demand and feedback. Vamoose, a Hasidic-owned company based in New York, is selling one-way tickets for $22 over the phone or at vamoosebus.com. In an interview yesterday, Vamoose co-owner Florence Bluzenstein pointed to guaranteed seating as an advantage over competitors. “We only book as many seats as we have available,” she said. “We have approximately 56 seats on every...
...years, dropped by Graham's hotel room for some private time. And in the evening, Graham visited privately with former Sen. Chuck Robb and his wife, Lynda, whose mother, Lady Bird Johnson, died over the summer. Graham spoke with Lynda, her sister Luci and Lady Bird by phone two days before the former First Lady died...