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...that things ever stay quiet in the south for long. In 2001 the government announced it would hold elections for the region's governorship?something Misuari denounced as a violation of the peace agreement; he sparked a new conflict in Jolo. Misuari fled to Malaysia, was extradited home, and is now in custody in a police camp outside Manila awaiting a trial. After the flare-up on Jolo last week, the rebels demanded their former leader be brought to the southern island of Sulu for trial. (Misuari could not be reached by TIME: his wife Tarhata said his guards...
Steve Jarding is no beauty school graduate, but his job description does make space for hair consultations, if necessary. A campaign consultant who has staffed Senators Bob Kerrey and John Edwards, Jarding was the mastermind behind Mark Warner’s successful run for governorship in Virginia three years ago. Now, the man Roll Call once named one of the 50 most influential people in Washington is at the Kennedy School, where he pontificates on his area of expertise: “Running for Office and Managing Campaigns.” FM talked to Jarding about P. Diddy, Mohawks...
...charitable foundation she runs that helps abused children filed a complaint that Chuwit employed underage girls. Chuwit said he never did so deliberately, and a court acquitted him in June after employees testified they had used forged IDs to get jobs in his massage parlors. If he wins the governorship, Chuwit promises to devote all his time to the task of cleaning up Bangkok?from cracking down on corruption to improving garbage collection?even forgoing the luxury of vacations abroad. He doesn't have much choice: a court is still trying the case involving the bars that were destroyed...
...kind of phenomenon that non-Americans either laugh at or are baffled by. The rise of a steroid-munching, big-grinned, Austrian body builder into Hollywood stardom and then the governorship of the most populous state in the U.S. is an only-in-America story. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't even born here. But he is as big a political and cultural presence as anyone...
Ventura stunned political observers in 1998 when—running as a third-party candidate—he defeated well-established Democratic and Republican contenders to capture the North Star State’s governorship...