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Philippines Notebook: A National Disaster Brings Death and Blame

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


Virginia M. Moncrieff

An overburdened city is an overburdened city and on Saturday, regardless of whether you lived in a shanty town or in a utilities-paying neighborhood, it was time to pay the price.

The Philippines: an Aquino makeover on the road to the Presidency.

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 11.09.2009 | World


Virginia M. Moncrieff

The Philippines hasn't recovered from its official mourning period for former President Corazon Aquino, but there's already pressure on her son, Sen. Benigno 'Noy Noy' Aquino III, to run for president.