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...state of politics was "far from ideal"; it didn't directly point the finger at MalacaNang, but the seemingly calculated ambiguity allowed others to do so. The favorite charge is that she's no different from Estrada?or not different enough ("same dog with a different collar," says businessman Zobel, who predicts some kind of mass uprising before the summer is out). One of her first Cabinet nominations was a former general who was being investigated for corruption. Accusations against her husband?for steering government money to favored Senate campaigns, and for taking bribes?have likewise been damaging...
...sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where hackers have the chance to lash out at powerful institutions they consider repressive. "In cyberspace it doesn't matter if you're a Roxas, a Lopez or a Zobel," he says, ticking off the Philippines' leading families. "No one knows your identity. You can't begin to imagine the impact this has on a hierarchical society like ours...
Louise Woodward's long American nightmare is over. The Massachusetts Supreme Court all but put the former au pair on a plane back to England Tuesday by backing Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to commute her sentence to manslaughter and let her go with time served. But it was a squeaker -- four judges said yes, three said no, ensuring that the death of baby Matthew Eappen will remain forever shrouded in controversy...
...issue here: Can the British au pair return to England with a sentence of time served? Or should Judge Hiller Zobel's decision to impose a manslaughter verdict be overturned, and Woodward sent back to jail for the murder of baby Matthew Eappen? To solve that question, the justices have to crack a whole host of conundrums: Did the prosecution prejudice the trial by withholding details about Matthew's skull fracture, for example? Don't hold your breath for the answer -- the court has 130 days to make up its mind...
...year-old au pair and to eight-month-old Matthew Eappen, who was in her charge, and who is dead. The public thinks it sees injustice in the second-degree murder verdict the jury handed down. But then it thinks it sees injustice in the reversal by Judge Hiller Zobel, when he reduced the verdict to manslaughter and ordered no more jail time for Woodward. Adding to the frustration was the memory of O.J. and the question, never settled, of whether this year's civil-court decision to take away his money compensated society or heaven for what most people...