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Indeed, it's happened before, and like predecessor Corazon Aquino, Arroyo will need all of her assets - plus some - to succeed in one of Asia's most difficult jobs. Arroyo has an easier lot than Aquino in 1986 - she doesn't have to dismantle a 20-year dictatorship. But Estrada left a whole lot of garbage behind, literally: Manila is inundated with uncollected trash due to bad planning by Estrada's administration. (Ironically, and possibly symbolically, the rankest part of town is now EDSA, where hundreds of thousands of Filipinos managed to evict a President and also make quite...
...forward to moving into to her old bedroom in MalacaNang Palace, the presidential residence.) Though 53 years old, she resembles a delicate ingEnue, a plus in the appearance-crazy Philippines. A Ph.D. in economics gives great gravitas. In office, Arroyo intends to be the reverse image of her disgraced predecessor, Joseph Estrada: brainy, focused and, well, sober. "I won't be drinking with my friends," she tells Time...
...just read your contrasting articles on the dignified Laura Bush [NATION, Jan. 8] and her ambitious, material-girl predecessor, Hillary Clinton. It's great to know there's going to be at least one adult in the White House again. BOB PUTMAN Schaumburg...
...Saturday, issuing a slew of pardons, Clinton took a major swipe at all the independent counsels who had dogged him and his cabinet. Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros and his onetime mistress were pardoned. Several figures who were squeezed by longtime Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Ray's predecessor - Steve Smith, Robert Palmer, Chris Wade and Susan McDougal - were given dispensation...
Nearly 50,000 people--more than eight times as many as answered the first call--applied. The resulting cast, ranging from a retired cop to a chef, is noticeably younger (the oldest is 53) and more buff than its predecessor. "There is a sexuality to this show that S1 didn't have," says Probst. "People chop down trees in bikinis." And, he says, having watched S1, they all come to the outback with a strategy in mind: "This second group would squash [S1 winner] Richard Hatch like a gnat; that's how much more prepared they are. And they think...