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...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...
Mitten says he harbors no ill feelings towards the man who disrupted his final, though his sympathy lies elsewhere. “While I really feel sorry for the poor disturbed man, I felt and feel even sorrier for all the students who were put in fear of their lives,” Mitten says. The professor recognizes in the scare a lesson that is even sharper in a post-Sept. 11 world: “It makes one realize how vulnerable we are to crazy individuals like this and to terrorism in our open urban university community...
...convicted drug dealer. But the weeklong ad campaign was so pervasive that it would have been hard for anyone living in L.A. not to see them. Villaraigosa has already said he regrets writing the letter on behalf of the drug dealer's family, but he's probably even sorrier about...
...famous footage of Mr. Clinton embracing the intern in the crowd, a person starts to value the right not to watch and not to care. What we now know is approximately what we knew at the start. He did it; we're sorry he did; he must be sorrier than anyone else that he did it. Time to grow up and move...
Never mind. The plates continue spinning. General Cedras stays in Haiti. And Father Aristide, one of the sorrier horses that American policy has backed on a foreign track, returns to the winner's circle where he belongs, ringed by about a quarter of a billion dollars' worth of American bayonets. Democracy will be restored to an island that never had it in the first place. Haiti surely deserves democracy. It is just that the country's political culture, like that of, say, Somalia, is at the moment inhospitable to the novelty...