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...Fifteen minutes later, facing an unknown future with just a pink plastic basket holding a few clothes and a bottle of shampoo, Lek starts to cry. Suddenly sensing a need to do everything properly, she runs into the bar, kneels in front of Mama San and begins to bow and chant, a good Buddhist girl in smudged makeup giving thanks for her freedom. Mama San laughs, flattered by the display of supplication. She isn't worried about finding replacements. "Their mothers or the middlemen bring them to me," she says. "There are always fresh ones...
...stakes are frighteningly high. Another EDSA would be disastrous, no matter who took over. The country is struggling to emerge from the damage Estrada caused to Ramos' reforms at home and investor confidence abroad. Another People Power, and the nation's image could be downgraded from shaky to basket case...
Here are a few basic principles, news to nobody. Sports stoke adrenaline, laying out a drama that usually ends in an unambiguous win or loss. "Fan" is short for fanatic; each close pitch or missed basket or hard body check makes manic-depressives of a team's rooters. And some parents are among the most rabid, reckless fans. Inflating their kids' skills, magnifying a child's lapses, they can make dinnertime a celebration or an inquisition; and if they don't take out their frustration on the infant athletes, they may attack the arbiters. "Kill the umpire" is only...
Some would say it’s a technical question, one that should be referred to the experts to solve with scientific studies. And indeed, measuring consumption patterns or pricing a given basket of goods are technical problems that a good study can solve. But the living wage isn’t supposed to be a biological minimum, representing the most grinding misery that human beings can physically sustain. Whether a given living standard is “adequate” is decidedly not a technical question, and treating it as one serves only to obscure the true nature...
...once the Soviet Union had collapsed, India became a far more appealing strategic partner to Washington - a stable democracy with a potential powerhouse economy led by a booming IT sector, it seemed a more natural ally for the Clinton administration than politically unstable Pakistan to the north with its basket-case economy and its close links with the Taliban. And as the regime that Pakistan had nurtured in Afghanistan came increasingly into conflict with the U.S. over the export of terrorism, Islamabad found itself the odd man out as the Islamist infrastructure it had cultivated partly in service to Cold...