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WHEN she came to power after the People Power Revolution of February 1986, President Cory Aquino appointed Miriam Defensor-Santiago as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID). The BID was one of the most corrupt and (literally) dirtiest government offices in the land. I was then a young reporter for the Observer magazine and I was assigned to interview her. I was waiting in the press room when a director of the BID ran out of the commissioner's office, straight to where the reporters sat, screaming, "She threw a chair at me."
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