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...fire fighter, Lau grew up the fourth of six kids in a public-housing estate in Hong Kong's industrial Tai Po district. Today, he commands about $1 million per movie and averages three a year; in addition, he performs several concerts annually for about $125,000 a show, and he boasts a steady stream of lucrative fees for advertisements and endorsements. This level of success "is more than enough," says Lau, whom friends describe as traditional and who lives in a house next door to his father's in Kowloon. In his spare time, Lau practices magic tricks...
...Sept. 14, 2001, President Bush stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center and struck a pose with a veteran fire fighter. If that was Bush's most memorable day, then something was wrong from the beginning. Turning up three days late, after being whisked around the country for his own safety, isn't my idea of heroism. Winston Churchill would have donned his helmet and been there on 9/11, regardless of security concerns. Jean Lamore Paris...
...Since that triumphant night, Pacquiao (it's pronounced correctly as Pak-yao) has been hailed as one of the world's best fighters; Ring magazine recently named him the "people's champion" in the featherweight class. At 25, he's now a main-event attraction who can negotiate seven-figure-per-fight deals with HBO. Back home in the Philippines, he's revered as a real-life Rocky who slugged his way out of the country's pervasive poverty and proved that Filipinos can compete and win on the global stage. When he returned to Manila after his victory...
...Toyota Tamaraw. And he has a big - and expensive - collection of admirers. Filipinos tend to have unusually large extended families, but Pacquiao's posse has expanded of late, seemingly at the same rate as his fight purses, which hit $700,000 for the battle with Barrera. Members circle the fighter like planets around the sun, cooking his dinner, clearing away his plate, carrying his pool cue when he goes out for the marathon billiards matches that occupy many of his evenings. Manager Nazario remembers calling Pacquiao the morning after a party in his honor, not long after the fighter returned...
...recurring nightmare of high-minded modern parents of daughters. You ask your relatives to lay off the pink pinafores at the baby shower. You give your daughter Legos and soccer balls, not Barbies. You encourage her to play fire fighter and immerse her in Dora the Explorer videos. Then one Halloween rolls around, and your empowered, self-confident budding Marie Curie tells you that she wants to be...a princess...