Word: filipinos
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...other tourists were not so lucky. Three Germans, two French, two South Africans, two Finns and a Lebanese were herded onto the boats with nine Malaysian and two Filipino resort workers. Under cover of darkness they were taken to Jolo island, in the southern Philippines, about an hour away. For days the captors' identity was a mystery, with speculation running from plain pirates to Abu Sayyaf, the most feared Muslim rebel group in the predominantly Roman Catholic Philippines. At midweek the Philippine Defense Secretary confirmed that the hostages were being held by Galib Andang, a.k.a. "Commander Robot," the Abu Sayyaf...
...popular local Muslim film star on its negotiating team (a demand that was met) to a call for the release of imprisoned World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and others convicted of terrorism in the U.S. The group also announced just last week that it had beheaded two Filipino hostages from a previous kidnapping as a "birthday present" to President Joseph Estrada. As the Philippine navy searches the countless small islands and inlets of its vast archipelago for signs of the group, the hostages may be ruing their choice of vacation destination. Paradise, sometimes, comes at a shocking price...
...Japan Society featured yakisoba--Japanese-style fried noodles, the Taiwanese Cultural Society served up scallion pancakes, the Harvard Philippine Forum (HPF) offered lumpia--a Filipino egg roll, and the South Asian Association had pakoras--vegetables deep-fried in chickpea batter...
...never got much of a word in during my Filipino frying - screaming pectoral muscles don't do much for the debating skills - but I'm going to keep running every night. I really hope I get caught again soon, because there are a few things I just might say. More dispatches to come...
...course, retail stores are allowed to appeal to a certain market base. If Abercrombie wanted to appeal to a largely white audience, that's fine. There are plenty of fashion labels that target a specific ethnicity--Fubu for African-Americans and Pinoy-Wear for Filipino-Americans to name a few. But these designers make it clear that they are appealing to a certain group within the nation. Abercrombie tricks you into thinking that their ads represent all of America. Their troupe of Aryan models even travel to England to prove it. For as we all know, "the only...