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...recent months two significant events in U.S. history have served to highlight the current government’s failure and incapacity to fulfill the role for which they were elected. Continuing civil strife, an increase in suicide bombings, and growing unrest prevail in Iraq. Similarly Hurricane Katrina ruined millions of lives, caused disastrous damage to the economy, and gave virtually all Americans cause for thought about the abilities of the current administration. Journalists quickly jumped on the bandwagon, clambering over one another to report on the human tragedy and loss of life. For weeks columns have lamented the destruction, poor...
...recovering Marcos' hidden wealth after he was exiled. Her team of young lawyers repatriated $683 million and successfully defended the government's claims to billions more in shares of local companies. The winner of a 2004 Ramon Magsaysay award for government service, Yorac's favorite saying was: "Let justice prevail, though the heavens may fall...
...which was criticized late last month by leaders of other former Soviet republics. They had gathered in Poland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the trade-union movement Solidarity, which led Poland's revolution. That was followed by "a second wave of liberation of Europe. Freedom and democracy will prevail everywhere, including Belarus," said Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of Georgia's rose revolution in 2003, and now the country's President. But the opinions of the outside world matter little to Lukashenko. Late last month, his secret police arrested two visiting Georgian activists and raided apartments of students who created...
...result is a kind of echo chamber in which good news can prevail over bad--even when there is a surfeit of evidence to the contrary. For example, a source tells TIME that four days after Katrina struck, Bush himself briefed his father and former President Clinton in a way that left too rosy an impression of the progress made. "It bore no resemblance to what was actually happening," said someone familiar with the presentation...
...Rehnquist-a man Nixon had just met three months earlier ("Is he Jewish?" the President had asked shortly after meeting him, according to Dean's recollection; "he looks it")-Nixon had some reservations. "Maybe he can get a sex change," the President joked. But Ehrlichman's reasoning would eventually prevail: "If you want to salt away a guy that would be on the Court for 30 years [and] is a rock-solid conservative...