Word: jose
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...find a political figure to lead the charge. Possible candidates such as former President Fidel V. Ramos and longtime Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile scoff at the coup rumors. "Who is going to run the country?" asks Enrile. But other politicians are more concerned. House Speaker Jose de Venecia has called for emergency "unity talks" among politicians and civic organizations to simmer things down...
...April 21, police arrested 39-year-old Anna Ayala at her home outside Las Vegas. Ayala, who made headlines when she claimed that she had come across part of a human finger in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, California on March 22, was taken into custody on charges of attempted grand larceny after law enforcement officials declared her story to be a hoax...
...into a fast-food order, the first phrase that comes to mind generally isn't victim corporation. But that's how an assistant district attorney described Wendy's last week after a patron claimed last month that a manicured fingertip had been served with her chili in San Jose, Calif. The ghastly publicity, which has cost the restaurant chain an estimated $1 million a day, eased a bit last week when the supposed finger finder was arrested for trying to shake down the fast-food giant. Anna Ayala, 39, a Nevada resident with a history of suing companies and settling...
...Died. Jose Melis, 85, Havana-born bandleader for The Tonight Show whose affectionate bantering with host Jack Paar, an old Army buddy, set the model for Doc Severinsen, Paul Shaffer and other late-night musician sidekicks who followed; in Sun City, Ariz...
...shepherded brother Ah Xian and friend Guan Wei into her gallery in early 1989. Then on residencies at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, all three would settle permanently in Australia after Tiananmen Square, their causes helped by lobbying from the former cultural attach? to Beijing, Nicholas Jose. But while they exhibited in group shows together in the early '90s, only Guan Wei was picked up by an Australian commercial gallery. As it transpires, going it alone without a dealer has paid off handsomely for the brothers. "They do find it very easy to get in touch with...