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Godspeed, Cory |
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By Cris G. Odronia, Reporter
About 200,000 grieving people
took to the rain-drenched streets of Metro Manila on Wednesday to
bid farewell to former President Corazon Aquino, whose “People
Power” democracy movement ended decades of dictatorship.
Mrs. Aquino, seemingly every
Filipino’s “Tita Cory,” or Aunt Cory, who died at 76 after a
long battle with colon cancer, was buried around 8:20 p.m. in a
private ceremony after a long funeral procession skirting the
gleaming business towers and teeming shantytowns in the cities of
Manila, Makati, Pasay, Muntinlupa and Paranaque.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Aquino: Housewife
turned ‘People Power’ revolutionary
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Corazon “Cory” Aquino, the
brave housewife in the yellow dress, was a reluctant leader who
overcame the murder of her husband to guide the Philippines through
a bloodless popular revolt against tyranny.
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President visits
wake at Manila Cathedral
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President Gloria Arroyo on
Wednesday paid her last respects to her predecessor and critic
Corazon “Cory” Aquino, despite festering conflicts with the
Aquino family, officials and reporters said.
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Palace welcomes
possible ‘Noynoy’ run for presidency
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Malacañang on Wednesday said
that it was not surprising if many people were asking Sen. Benigno
“Noynoy” Aquino 3rd to run for president considering the
support that the Aquino family is getting from Filipinos...
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Memory of Cory
brings peace to warring sports officials
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Even in sports, the late former
President Corazon “Cory” Aquino has made her presence felt.
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A mourner’s
‘hope, source of strength’
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An ordinary mourner’s devotion
to the woman that that the nation was about to bury on Wednesday
could only mean that thousands of others like her were not trucked
to the Manila Memorial Park,...
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To Ninoy and
Cory’s Kris, Filipinos ‘are worth it’
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“The Filipinos are worth it.”
Paraphrasing her father’s famous quote, Kristine Bernadette Aquino-Yap,
or Kris,..
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Slain Ninoy’s
jail cook prays for Cory
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FORT RAMON MAGSAYSAY, Palayan
City, Nueva Ecija: Basilisa Dilara first met Corazon “Cory”
Aquino sometime after the declaration of martial law on September
21, 1972, by then-President Ferdinand Marcos.
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