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...forget to credit Billie Jean King for what she said off court as much as what she did on. And don't leave out Gloria and Germaine and Susan B. (Don't Call Me Babe) Anthony, the murderers row of women's rights. This is deeper than tennis, deeper than sport. It's about opportunity and encouragement; it's about cultural attitudes--or, as we say in the sports pages, 'tudes. We would not be in the Golden Age of Women's Sports if we hadn't had a sea change in sociopolitical 'tude...
...places like the Philippines, where the unemployed frequently take to the streets, growing numbers of idle workers could become a serious threat to social stability. In Manila, 30,000 employees were laid off in May alone. Corporate leaders there have given President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a deadline: jump-start the economy in 90 days, or we'll begin firing people in droves. Armand Almadrigo, 3l, a Philippine warehouse worker who hasn't managed to find a new job after recently being laid off, wiles away his days in karaoke lounges. "Such good distraction?and cheap, too," he says. The music...
...Winners WILLEM-ALEXANDER Dutch parliament clears prince to wed Argentine fianc?. He appeals to World Court. Experts say if he loses there, he's out of excuses GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Philippine Prez weighs offer to be Unilever soap girl. She will scrub the Abu Sayyaf so squeaky clean they will beg for mercy GRANDPA BUA Thai monk turned over $6 million in donations to central bank. Surprised government officials make solemn vow to embezzle the funds
Archie Bunker burst onscreen snorting and bellowing about "spades" and "spics" and "that tribe." He decried miniskirts, "bleeding heart" churchmen, food he couldn't put ketchup on and sex during daytime hours. He bullied his "dingbat" wife Edith and bemoaned his "weepin' Nellie atheist" daughter Gloria. Above all, he clashed with his liberal, long-haired son-in-law Mike Stivic, a "Polack pinko meathead" living in the Bunker household while working his way through college...
...stubborness is also legendary: jealous at the birth of a younger brother, Gloria, at age four, refused to stay with her parents and went off to live with her maternal grandmother. She remained there for three years until she was finally coaxed home. Arroyo also refuses to speak to her half sister, Cielo Salgado, after she wrote in a book how her step mother (and Arroyo's biological mother) treated Cielo like "an errand girl...