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...outgoing government voted to oust Roh on charges of electoral-law violations, incompetence and corruption, but were defeated in parliamentary polls in April by the pro-Roh Uri Party. After being reinstated, Roh apologized for the corruption scandals involving his aides. Contested Polls THE PHILIPPINES Challenger Fernando Poe Jr. contested exit polls suggesting that incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had won the presidential election, and accused Arroyo of electoral fraud. One For The Road BRAZIL The government withdrew an expulsion order against New York Times correspondent Larry Rohter. The government said Rohter had apologized for a story he wrote suggesting President...
Even “The Raven,” taken from Reed’s badly- reviewed musical celebration of the Edgar Allan Poe work, which is read in Reed’s burnt-out but occasionally excitable drone, creates a palpable fear of the unknown and finds the undercurrent of sadness to make the rendition close to unforgettable...
...APPROVED. FERNANDO POE JR., 64, Philippine film star, to run for President, by the Philippine Supreme Court; in Manila. The popular actor faced disqualification from the race, because his mother was American and not married to his father at the time of his birth in the Philippines. The latest survey by pollster Social Weather Stations shows Poe neck and neck with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ahead of the May 10 election...
When action star Fernando Poe Jr. announced he was running for President of the Philippines last week, the Manila stock market fell nearly 2% and the peso tanked to its lowest level in a century. The Central Bank governor quickly announced that the markets weren't freaking out over Poe alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho...
...Still, Poe's candidacy spooked the business community. The last presidential election was won by another film star, Joseph Estrada, who was run out of office 21/2 years later by a People Power demonstration. Like Estrada, Poe is weak on policy and platform-he has none yet-but is beloved among the country's movie-crazy masses, particularly the poor. He lacks the dissolute reputation of Estrada, however, enjoying a happy marriage to movie queen Susan Roces. If Estrada, who lives in a police camp awaiting trial for economic plunder and perjury, is let out to campaign for Poe, some...