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...When he got to Manila, Pacquiao first worked as a laborer. His enthusiasm for boxing, however, had him returning to the ring, fighting in run-for-cover, barely legal matches pulled together in one of Manila's cramped suburbs. He lingers over the names of boxers he knew who died after such fights, then moves on. The death of a friend reportedly spurred Pacquiao to turn professional...
Some dude outside my supermarket just asked me to sign a petition to legalize marijuana. Apparently he was so high that he forgot he's in California, where pot is already more legal than budget-balancing. Last year I was granted a medical-marijuana license, even though I'm healthy and I don't smoke weed. I went to a doctor's office that consisted of a desk, a TV, two cans of air freshener and a man wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt. I told Dr. Magnum P.I. about my constant anxiety, insomnia and headaches - two more conditions than...
Still, the media feeds into many misconceptions about America in China. During the U.S. embassy briefing in Beijing, Anti-CNN founder Rao told officials - in what he would later describe as an attempt at humor - that he had seen how the CIA uses extra-legal powers, on the American television show Prison Break and in the Transformers films. How could the U.S. protect Web users?, he asked. "I would recommend that you not use Prison Break and Transformers as your only guide to American culture and government," a U.S. official responded...
...Sruli Recht to open a store on the outskirts of Reykjavik in a neighborhood locals call the fishpacking district. Just two months old, the 135-sq-m boutique cum design studio sells wallets made out of discarded Nile perch skin and Minke whale - commercial whaling is both popular and legal here - and floor-length sweaters. "Everyone was looking at what happened here as a catastrophe, but I see it as an opportunity," says Recht as he toys with a mannequin wrapped in mounds of black knitted Icelandic wool. A gust of wind from the nearby rocky shore taps...
...many people have respect for him ... We can't attack him as a political hack, because he's not. He's a political person, but first and foremost, he's a prosecutor." - Senior Bush official, on why Bharara was such a formidable adversary, during an interview with the Legal Times in April 2007 (Politico...