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...Every week in Intramuros, the old walled city in whose heart, the San Agustin Church, I was christened, tour guide Carlos Celdran peels back the city's colonial layers and shows why the texture of this city doesn't lend itself to glossy hooks. I haven't taken his tour before. In fact, today, I'm bleary after staying up to watch Cebuano reggae act Junior Kilat play saGuijo's in Makati, and as I sluggishly make my way to the Fort Bonifacio meeting point, I yearn to crawl back under the covers. But witty, hilarious Carlos jolts me into...
...pirated porn and secondhand bridal gowns. Exotic fare abounds, but I opt for a simple treat from childhood: a bananacue, or banana speared with a skewer, caramelized in deep-fried sugar. As I savor the sweet, sticky snack, I listen to a sermon blasted from a loudspeaker by a church decorated like a pastel Easter egg; in front of me is a row of old women selling religious figurines along with herbal potions that claim to do everything from curing coughs to terminating unwanted pregnancy. Afterwards I walk to Chinatown, where merchants hawk watermelons, pearls, watches and glutinous rice cakes...
Jordan C. Baehr ’08, for example, identifies himself as a practicing Christian, but says that his reasons for abstinence are not dictated by his church...
...John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, speaking at the First Parish Church on Saturday, condemned the environmental policy of the Bush administration and urged citizens to exert political pressure on their representatives. “Ladies and gentlemen, there is nothing like defeat to concentrate the mind of a politician,” Kerry said. Kerry and Heinz Kerry spoke at the event, organized by the Harvard Book Store, to promote their new book, “This Moment on Earth: Today’s New Enviromentalists and their Vision for the Future...
...adrenaline drained away, the strain of being patient and resourceful and strong has begun to wear on people. "All the public mourning seemed to delay the private mourning," said Robert Trent, a professor at nearby Radford College, who sang with his Virginia Tech friends in the church choir Sunday. "People put on a brave face, and it's reasonable that they would react that way. But now it hits them, and they should be allowed to have these private moments...