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...Served as ambassador to Tunisia from 1979 to 1981 and as Ambassador to the Philippines from 1984 to 87, during the tumultuous People Power revolution that saw President Ferdinand Marcos overthrown...
...names on its accounts, the Swiss passed a law in 1934 making such disclosures criminal. Years later, Swiss banks both sheltered the assets of German Jews and accepted looted Nazi gold (and later set up a $1.25 billion compensation fund for Holocaust victims). Corrupt leaders ranging from the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to Nigeria's Sani Abacha have used Swiss banks to hide ill-gotten gains. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...this history is on show in a historically significant location: the museum is in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, the otherwise obscure district where, in 1938, Ferdinand Porsche built the first VW Beetle, and, a year later, the 64 - the forefather of Porsche sports cars ever since. But you may prefer to skip the history and simply admire the stunningly beautiful automobiles. Car lovers can spend all day taking in models such as the 356 No. 1 Roadster (released in 1948, it was the first sports car ever to bear the Porsche name), an armada of 917 racing cars, and numerous variations...
After four years, Franz Ferdinand’s finally returned to the party. “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand,” their third album, finds the Scottish foursome still making dance floor-worthy post-punk. Their latest effort expands their signature style by adding more synthesizers and cranking up the bass in an attempt to satisfy the absurdly high expectations that grew over their long hiatus. However, while “Tonight” is a solid album, it is not as mind-blowingly awesome as it should be. The album’s best tracks showcase Franz Ferdinand...
...Pretenders is the fourth of José's five Rosales novels, which together span a hundred years of Philippine history from the end of Spanish colonial rule to the declaration of martial law by a besieged Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. José's saga, an outraged testament to the inequalities that wrack Manila and the country at large, is rivaled in his nation's literature only by José Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891), both acknowledged influences on José's writing. In Dusk, the first in the saga and set at the wane...