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...Jollibee, admits his childhood was pretty plush. "I don't remember not getting anything I wanted," he says. Yet Tancaktiong, 28, says he has grown up to be reasonably frugal, not because his parents lectured about money, but because they had down-to-earth spending habits themselves, eschewing luxury-brand clothing and expensive cars. Tancaktiong, a general manager of one of the company's Chinese chains, says he and his siblings recognized early that the family fortune was not their personal piggybank. "The three of us knew this money wasn't earned by us," Tancaktiong says. "Had we been...
...Shabaab is taking its brand of terrorism to new territories. On Oct. 29, members detonated five car and suicide bombs outside U.N., Ethiopian government and local administration buildings in the autonomous northern regions of Puntland and Somaliland, killing more than 30 people. "They are willing to expand their war," says Menkhaus. "And Ethiopia, Kenya or Djibouti are next...
Palin hit back in her signature style. "Jerks," she said of her veiled foes. It was in keeping with the particular brand of brass that makes her, rawness aside, a plausible--perhaps formidable--future candidate. If any politician can survive the spectacle of sorting through her family's suitcases to determine which duds are legally hers (the rest are being returned to the GOP; imagine the bewildered staffer opening that package), it's Sarah...
...still has creative beats, a one-of-a-kind delivery, and songs that do not sacrifice intelligence for accessibility. But I’m not sure if “The Renaissance” is a transcendent album that can bring to the fore a more innovative and intelligent brand of hip-hop. Q-Tip sampled then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on early versions of “Shaka,” the veteran finding common ground with the neophyte in their goal of bringing positive change to hip-hop and America, respectively. Here’s to hoping that...
...year, Parent secured Japanese designer Issey Miyake in his first showing outside his own runway in Paris. Still, Parent has had to overcome more than a few hurdles with Project East. “The biggest challenge was building the show up on itself, on hype, being able to brand something that hadn’t really been done before and getting people to believe in it,” he says. “So many of my closest friends didn’t even believe it would happen.” The East Asian Studies concentrator is nevertheless...