Archive for December, 2004

Randy David's Public Lives

• The main crisis is still political
  MANILA, Philippines?To talk about politics while the country confronts a looming food crisis would seem insensitive.
• A bishop for president
  This Sunday, April 20, if the opinion polls are predictive, the next president of Paraguay may well be a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
• Rice: a policy blind spot
  MANILA, Philippines?The growing queues of the urban poor seeking their daily ration of rice are images suffused with political meaning. Any regime that knows its politics cannot fail to see great danger looming ahead.
• Kidney sales: exchanges in desperation
  MANILA, Philippines?My father-in-law went through a difficult period of dialysis before he died in 1999 at the age of 80. My 78-year-old mother suffered from the same end-stage renal disease and died the following year.
• Bringing the stalemate to an end
  MANILA, Philippines?It is important to understand exactly what the recent Supreme Court decision on the Neri vs. Senate is all about.