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...since Estrada's ouster. But where the business, military, political and clerical elite may have reached consensus on the need to get rid of Estrada, they may be more divided on how to succeed him. The first sign of trouble came earlier this week when Arroyo's defense minister quit over her decision to retain as national security adviser a former military chief who faces corruption charges himself. She may be a committed economic reformer who hopes to sweep out corruption, but Gloria Arroyo is perched atop a power structure that has been riddled with graft and now appears...
...This is the second time Mandelson has had to quit Blair's cabinet...
John Kennedy has high hopes that he will feel well enough this year to work. Born with hemophilia, a hereditary blood-clotting disorder, the 41-year-old Chicagoan contracted hepatitis C through blood transfusions given as part of his treatment. The once energetic attorney was forced to quit his job. Now, however, he no longer needs to take a particular antihepatitis drug that left him heavily fatigued, and he plans to return to work for the first time since 1995. "I'm definitely optimistic that I can start practicing law again soon," he says. The trick will be finding...
...drummer Bill Berry. "To tell you the truth, we're doing much better than we were before, when he was in the band. It sounds harsh, and I love Bill and he's a great drummer of course, but Bill had lost the passion and to his credit he quit. In my opinion, change is always good, even when it's scary...
...decided that the discovered works were good enough to publish, and she was right. Even though they were not polished to the extent the author probably intended, these five stories are set unmistakably in Carver country and populated by Carver people. The heroes have quit drinking, as Carver did in 1977. Marriages are tense or broken. In Kindling, a man named Myers has just gotten out of an alcohol rehab center and can't go home again because his wife "had a lawyer and a restraining order." So he rents a room in another town and winds up voluntarily chopping...