Word: filipino
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...foolish not only because it doesn't work, but because it tells the world that Filipinos are morons." CHRYSTALYNE GALAPON, Filipino store clerk, on Manila's plan to stop jaywalking by having a truck-mounted 2-m-by-3-m "wet flag" driven along the city's streets, soaking pedestrians who stray off the curb
DIED. FERNANDO POE JR., 65, Filipino film idol turned presidential candidate; after a stroke; in Quezon City, the Philippines. Popular for playing socially conscious underdog heroes in more than 200 action movies, the actor known as "Da King" lost by 3% of the vote to incumbent Gloria Macapagal Arroyo last May. His court challenge of the count is still pending...
...DIED. FERNANDO POE JR., 65, "Da King" of Philippine action movies, who tried to use his popularity at the box office to win the presidency last May; of a massive stroke; in Quezon City. The handsome, half-American, half-Filipino Poe rose from poverty to become the archetypal Tagalog movie lead and a millionaire. He portrayed honest cops or soldiers brought low by corrupt forces, who always bounced back to take bloody revenge. In some parts of the country, overheated audience members were known to fire weapons at the screen when Poe's character was attacked. Poe lost...
Celebrate Asian culture with the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. The evening will include dancing and dulcimers, wushu and Filipino tinikling, not to mention all kinds of Asian food. General admission is $7; get your tickets at the Harvard Box Office. 8 p.m. Lowell House dining hall. (ECMV...
World-renowned writers Han Ong, Elif Shafak and M.G. Vassanji gather to read excerpts of their celebrated novels The Disinherited, The Saint of Incipient Insanities, and The In Between World of Vikram Lall. Ong, a Filipino-American, Shafak, from Turkey and Vassanji, from Kenya via Tanzania and Canada, all focus their recent novels on stories of exile and love, and the emotional attachments of one’s culture. No ticket necessary. 6:30 p.m. The Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...