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Many Filipinos will be proud that last week's mass display of public indignation rid them of a President who was none-too-bright, unreliable after lunch and, if the testimony in Joseph Estrada's Senate trial is true, had the moral scruples of a two-bit Tondo hustler. But as with Woodstock II (or III), the sequel to 1986's People Power revolution is an echo with a hollow yet distinctly nasty tone. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos cast presidential no-confidence votes with their feet - an act that doubled as an impromptu referendum on their constitution...
...when circumstances changed, so, apparently, did those values. On the crowded pavement of EDSA last week, Aquino and Ramos urged Filipinos to disregard the constitution - not because it was flawed, but because it wasn't getting rid of Estrada quickly enough. Vice President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, another member of the Elite, referred to herself as Commander in Chief even before Estrada resigned - and then took the presidential oath, vowing to uphold the constitution...
...rid of some of these people right now: Sixteen is way too much; just ask any good dramatist. Nobody can tell them apart. This isn't a Robert Altman joint (is it?), and oh, by the way, do you not remember that most of Robert Altman's crowded-cast films, um, sucked? (Except for "Nashville" and "Short Cuts" that is, but even then they worked because the big group was broken down into four or five small groups). Whom do we remember from "Survivor 1," anyway? Just the last few: Richard, Sue, Sean, Rudy, Kelly (one was named Kelly, right...
...thriller in Manila had been, Arroyo said Thursday, "I think the bottom line is how the markets accepted it." Indeed, stock prices have climbed 20 percent 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...
Such therapies will not, on their own, be able to rid the body of large tumors. So it is likely that oncologists will put together cocktails of treatments, each using a different strategy to outfox the cancer. In the future, traditional chemotherapy will be combined with other cell-killing treatments like the COX-2 inhibitors, drugs that are chemically related to pain-killers like ibuprofen and that appear to force cancer cells to self-destruct. Chemotherapy will also be used with treatments that aim simply to stop tumors from growing, such as the so-called antiangiogenic factors, relatively nontoxic compounds...