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...street demos are just one tactic to topple Arroyo. The strategy?according to foes of Arroyo as well as palace insiders?is to first discredit the 58-year-old former economics professor in order to turn popular opinion against her. The Senate is investigating allegations that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law were involved in an illegal gambling racket?allegations that they have denied. And the House of Representatives has started hearings about the tape. There might well be another scandal or two along the way, made public at what Arroyo's enemies deem a vulnerable moment...
...four years, Cruz has waged what he calls a "crusade" against an illegal lottery racket known as jueteng, which is commonly played throughout the Philippines. He's trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics...
...windy now, and Wanda is further infuriated when she learns that their limousine cannot pick them up at curbside. "This lane is for taxis only," explains the shaken USIA woman. That does it. "I will go back to New York," Mrs. Horowitz announces. Her husband quickly seconds the motion: "If she's not going, then I'm not going." A compromise is reached: Wanda will take a taxi...
Back in Manhattan, Wanda looks at her airplane ticket. "Look at this, will you?" she says to her husband. "It cost $150. My father told me government functions are bad theater. Too many people in government are stunks...
Obsession, often subliminally sexual, is Rendell's favorite terrain. The title story evokes an eerie and doomed romance between a timid woman and her friend's too pretty husband, a closet transvestite. The Orchard Walls tells of adultery and long-concealed vengeance from the viewpoint of a bystander, a girl on the brink of puberty, in whose mind daydreams and overheard dalliances fatally mingle. Rendell sketches a close-knit, gossipy group of old women in The Convolvulus Clock. One of them impulsively steals an artist-designed timepiece. Guilt and fear of disapproval from her friends slowly drive her cuckoo. Father...