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...DIED. ARTURO TOLENTINO, 94, vice-presidential running mate to late dictator Ferdinand Marcos during the Philippines' fraud-riddled 1986 snap elections; in Quezon City, Philippines. The vote led to the famous "people power" revolt against the Marcos regime and eventually to the dictator's ouster and exile. Months afterward, Tolentino declared himself President, and soldiers loyal to him took over the Manila Hotel. The Tolentino regime lasted only two days...
...praised the French Revolution, knew exactly what revolutions meant. Their essence was not in their instantaneous bursts of glory but in their ripple effect across borders and time, their ability to put the impossible within reach and make the downtrodden seem mighty. And he feared that Haiti's revolt would inspire similar actions in the U.S. "If something is not done, and soon done, we shall be the murderers of our own children," Jefferson wrote about the potential impact of the Haitian uprising...
...messages and raise duties on tobacco and alcohol have already been scrapped. And Arroyo is now expected to deliver on a raft of expensive campaign promises that, politically, she can't afford to drop. Add an unresolved terrorism threat and the possibility of another "People Power" revolt, and you might wonder why anyone would fight for the presidency. "I feel sorrier for the winner than for the loser," says Asiri Abubakar of the University of the Philippines...
...cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. At the time, Bremer said the paper was inciting anti-Americanism and endangering U.S. troops. Adnan Pachachi, then a Governing Council member, says that no one was consulted when Bremer decided to shut the paper down. In response, al-Sadr's loyalists staged a rolling revolt in Baghdad and across much of southern Iraq, locking down cities and in the process turning many previously neutral Iraqi Shi'ites firmly against the U.S. occupation. Governing Council members believe the decision was a huge mistake. Says Ibrahim Jaafari, one of the two Vice Presidents in the new Iraqi...
...been ad-libbing and improvising together." That bodes well for the computer-animated feature, which is due out next summer. Chicken Little is a story about public humiliation and the struggle for redemption. For the sake of the beleaguered Mouse House, which has already had to weather a shareholder revolt and an aborted takeover attempt this year, let's hope the tale ends well...