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...activist," a waitress heard Burgos shout. A mall security guard approached the group. As the guard would later testify, the men warned him that they were police officers. They hustled Burgos outside and into a maroon Toyota. As the car vanished into traffic, the guard wrote down the license plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...Burgos' mother that they'd found a corpse resembling Jonas. The man had been bound with a cord, strangled, shot twice in the skull, and dumped by a lonely country roadside. Edita Burgos insisted it was not her son. As part of their investigation, police also traced the license plate of the Toyota used by the kidnappers. They discovered that the plate had originally belonged to a vehicle in Bulacan. In July 2006, the owner of that vehicle was cited for illegal logging, and the vehicle itself was impounded by the army's 56th Infantry Battalion, also stationed in Bulacan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...military conducted its own internal investigation into the license plate. While that report recommended censuring three of the battalion's officers for failing to keep track of the plate, it did not offer an explanation of how the plate became attached to the car used to snatch Burgos-other than to suggest that someone seeking to discredit the military may have snuck into the base and stolen it. In July, a senior government prosecutor announced that he wanted to interview six military officers in connection with Burgos' abduction. He was immediately removed from the case. Senior military officers have offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines' Disappearing Dissidents | 6/9/2008 | See Source »

...probably no coincidence that the odds-on favorite to replace Olmert is a politician with an ironclad reputation for honesty and integrity--she famously insists on always picking up her own tab, even if it's just for a plate of hummus. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is in many ways Olmert's opposite. The Prime Minister is a jokey backslapper and charmer, a consummate pol with expensive tastes in cigars, flashy wristwatches and fountain pens; Livni, 49, is a no-nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel's Mrs. Clean | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...backyard, Harris fills students’ plates with falafel and homemade hamburgers. But this year more than most, the House master, department chair, senior adviser to the College dean, and leader of the General Education committee has had his own plate full...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portrait: Jay M. Harris | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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