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That controversy might have blown over - allegations of patronage politics are nothing new in a country that often seems still to be feeling the long hangover from Marcos' kleptocracy - if not for a concurrent scandal allegedly involving payouts to lawmakers. On Oct. 15, a provincial governor - and former parish priest...
Arroyo certainly doesn't need any more critics. Already accused of vote-rigging during her 2004 election - a charge she denies - Arroyo and her administration have recently been shaken by more scandals. Benjamin Abalos, head of the Philippines' election commission and Arroyo's political ally, resigned Oct. 1 over accusations...
It's a list as miserly and pretentious as the spirit that drew it up. Indeed, working through A Writer's People is rather like listening to the postprandial monologue of a cantankerous old guest at a literary dinner. One is at first amused by all the iconoclasm: After all...
All except Hartnett, always the provincial braveheart. The screenwriters make a few pitiful attempts to provide Harnett with opportunities for grade-A Hollywood heroism: When the vampires use a young girl as bait to lure the survivors into the street, Hartnett rushes in with his axe at the ready and...
Tribal leaders approached the soldiers, who in turn notified civilian leaders, including the local Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team, a State Department-sponsored unit of development and security experts working in the region since early this year. The EPRT turned to the U.S. Institute for Peace, a body created by Congress...