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...Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, or EDSA, one of the city's main thoroughfares. Next, you recruit a couple of ambitious generals who can enlist the troops and scramble the jets. That's the way two Philippine Presidents were overthrown: kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and party-loving, mah-jongg crazy Joseph Estrada last January...
...herself a sugar daddy who is rich?and tantalizingly old. When he dies, Zhang, 20, stands to inherit half his wealth (the rest will go to the legal wife across the border). But during the long stretches when he's away, Zhang is bored, staying at home playing mah-jongg with other second wives and banking the $2,000 a month he gives her. "He is old, no energy," she says. "Like my grandfather." Hedging her bets, three times a week she slips on a miniskirt and heads out to the basement Moonlight Club, looking for someone a little younger...
...personal connection with Bong Pineda, an alleged provincial jueteng boss. Arroyo is godmother to one of Pineda's sons. She flatly denies any impropriety, saying she doesn't associate with Pineda or his crowd. "I don't drink with them," she tells Time. "I don't play mah-jongg with them." When she was asked to be godmother, she says she got counsel from Jaime Cardinal Sin, the archbishop of Manila. "Cardinal Sin said, as a Christian, if I am asked to be a godmother, it is my Christian duty," she relates, "because the sins of the father...
...jongg 2. Olympic Airways founder, in headlines 3. Fenway great's nickname 4. "Who's on first?" team member 5. Mickey's creator 6. Garth Brooks' Touch 'Em __ Foundation 7. Allen W. Dulles once headed it 8. Significant person? 9. Like Moses, Pope saw the Promised Land from here 10. Essay page 11. Abdoulaye __, who has been elected Senegal's President 16. "That feels good!" 20. Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind...
...knew our mothers didn't have great lives. My mother had lots of energy and ability. She was a brilliant bridge and mah-jongg player, a good golfer and hostess, head of the women's division of the community chest, etc. But I didn't want to be like my mother. Women in my generation had to be self-made. We were the first women to move into careers and autonomy. The energy released by the move to women's equality was stronger than that released by the H-bomb...