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...just before midnight when, weary from four hours of intense debate, Homobono Adaza, an opposition member in the Batasan, the Filipino national assembly, made an impassioned final speech. "In the ultimate analysis, it is not the Batasan that will render judgment here," he told the members of the assembly's Committee on Justice, Human Rights and Good Government. "It is the people who will render the ultimate judgment, and when that moment comes, we--in the silences of our room--must square ourselves with our conscience." Then Adaza and the seven other defeated opposition members of the committee stood...
...Stuff Happens may be overlong, but it is often very good theater--especially when it is, as it were, on the record, re-creating the known absurdities (and apparent lies) of Establishment figures enabling a mysteriously driven leader. Power, in this play, does not exactly corrupt, but it does render people giddy with their essentially unchallenged ability to manipulate not merely poor Blair but reality itself...
...summer of 2003, leaders of the region stopped polio inoculations after rumors spread that the vaccine could transmit AIDS and render girls infertile. It was a bad time--and a very bad place--to halt vaccines. There are now 35 million Nigerian kids under age 5, and 20% have no polio vaccinations. Says Oliver Rosenbauer, spokesman for WHO's Global Polio Eradication Initiative: "That's a lot of breathing space for the poliovirus to survive...
...shift is a very fortunate move as, sadly, the writing in “Guilty” can sometimes verge on the mediocre and there are also a number of misspellings in the dialogue. However, Stevens’ drawings are often so realistic and subtly attention-grabbing as to render the dialogue almost entirely irrelevant...
...scale and capability. But for all its proven ability to disrupt and sabotage the new order in Iraq, an insurgency based on the sectarian militancy of the Sunni minority can't easily succeed in restoring Sunni-Baathist authority over the newly empowered Shiites and Kurds, whose own militias render such an outcome unlikely even if U.S. troops were to withdraw. So, even if a civil war is already under way, it's worth remembering that civil wars do end - either when one side vanquishes the other, or else in a political solution when neither side is capable of delivering...