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...represent the country could distort a democracy. I never participated in any of the rallies--not because I am an Estrada supporter but because I believe the impeachment trial represented a legal and more civilized means for justice to be meted out. I was surprised and disappointed when this process was discontinued; we've now ended up in an untidy limbo of a new, unexpected government in the hands of a leader who was sworn in by prosecutors, Senators and the protesters who pointedly ignored the laws that protect every Filipino's right to justice. MAYA RIVERA Makati City...
...what point in the cloning process does the human soul get implanted by the scientists? KAREN SLYMAN Exton...
...certifies doulas, has 3,500 members--up from 750 in 1995, according to Kristi Ridd-Young, DONA's administrative director. "Part of this increase stems from the fact that the consumer is taking birth back into her own hands and wants to be a part of the decision process," says Ridd-Young. "Also, it's a natural instinct to gather the right kind of support around...
...volunteer from Missouri who arrived in 1996, at age 27, in a small city called Fuling on the banks of the Yangtze River to teach English for two years. River Town (HarperCollins; 402 pages; $26) chronicles his conversations there with farmers, teachers, porters, cooks and prostitutes and, in the process, provides a wonderful portrait of contemporary China, in all its unsettling contradictions...
...David Trimble, first minister of Northern Ireland, is another co-winner (1998) who must be wondering whether his accolade is really a curse. Bravely he has struggled to keep some forward momentum in the Ulster peace process, as much against hard-liners in his own Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) as against the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and its political front Sinn Fein. But the process is stuck in neutral, perhaps drifting backward. Last week, British prime minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern convened talks with Ulster politicians at Hillsborough Castle near Belfast. All the pomp and glitter...