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...moment that it must be exhausting to keep up. Everything about them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl singer? Check, and she goes by the name of “Lovefoxxx.” Debut on indie-darling label Sub Pop? Claro que sim. Lyrics with tongue-in-cheek references to Paris Hilton and Death from Above? Obvi. Friends with Diplo, the Svengali behind M.I.A.? That, too. Considering how tired of being sexy they are, it’s somehow fitting that the video for “Alala?...
...Richardson. Hoy en d?a, como primer gobernador hispano de la naci?n, el pol?tico nacido en Nuevo M?xico sabe exactamente c?mo y cu?ndo mostrar sus ra?ces. "No, no me voy a postular para la presidencia?, dijo en junio ante una audiencia de latinos en New Hampshire. Y agreg? en espa?ol, ?claro, yo ser? un candidato...
...Died. Claro Recto, 70, Philippine Senator and violently outspoken nationalist; of a heart attack; in Rome, while on a world tour. Lawyer Recto presided over the framing of the Philippine constitution in 1934-35, served as Foreign Minister in the puppet government set up by the Japanese in World War II, returned to the Senate at war's end. An early supporter of the Philippines' late President Ramon Magsaysay, Recto soon turned bitterly against him, claimed that Magsaysay had welshed on a promise to serve only one term. Recto avidly sought the presidency for himself but never could...
...that he could fill his predecessor's unfillable shoes. Independent Manahan, who tried so hard to shrug into the lost leader's mantle that he retouched his campaign photos to heighten his physical resemblance to Magsaysay, finished a respectable third with 20% of the vote. Fourth: Senator Claro Recto. 67, candidate of landlords and anti-American intellectuals...
...votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia's onetime mentor, who went down to defeat with 69 votes, and bitter, professionally anti-American Claro Recto, Magsaysay's most implacable enemy, who won a humiliating 14 votes...