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...tackle subordinate parts if he thinks they are enough of a stretch. It's paying off. Last week, he won the Best Actor trophy at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance as a conflicted monk in a beefcake bodysuit in Running on Karma. In accepting the honor, Lau took the stage and proclaimed: "I love the film industry!" At last, he's developing a sense of his own worth. "The people who work in this business just classify me as an idol," he says. "But never mind. I am an artist...
...poverty and proved that Filipinos can compete and win on the global stage. When he returned to Manila after his victory in Texas, hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer his motorcade. Since then, he's been busy shooting commercials and a movie, collecting awards, attending parties in his honor and, most recently, campaigning for his friend President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the nation's upcoming election. If Arroyo had Pacquiao's popularity, she'd be re-elected in a landslide. "There are two things this country is hungry for: a fighter and a hero," says Ronnie Nathanielsz, a veteran...
...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 from the U.S. "He said, 'I thought I had 30 relatives,'" Nazario recalls, "'but there were actually 100 ... 150 ... 200 ... and they all say they are my relatives...
It’s the only time of year that boasts the honor of being best remembered in terms of a wide, and at times random, assortment of game-related anecdotes and jokes that only you and your friends will remember...
...they didn't count on was the popularity of discount airlines. Hence, in 2003, after eight full years of operations, Eurotunnel counted just 6.3 million passengers and 1.7 million tons of freight, and posted a €1.9 billion loss. The income shortfall has left the company scarcely able to honor payments to creditor banks, much less post profits or pay dividends. Financial aid from the British or French governments is explicitly prohibited in the 1986 treaty founding the project. "Without a doubt, the Channel Tunnel would not have been built if we'd known about these problems," lamented Eurotunnel...