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...decision to close the restaurant—located in Holyoke Center adjacent to the intersection of Dunster and Mt. Auburn—was primarily based on a desire to exit the fast food business and instead focus on higher-class dining, according to Glen D. Mah ’94, who owns Ma Soba along with his brother Clarence E. Mah...
...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...
...tomato, I say toh-mah-toh, let's call the whole thing off..." Indeed, if China and the U.S. spoke the same language, the job of U.S. and Chinese diplomats negotiating the text of a letter from Washington that would allow them to end the Hainan standoff would have been a lot more difficult. And, of course, Beijing's monopoly of control over the Chinese media may have proved extremely useful in developing traction for a diplomatic solution in which one side needed to convince its public that it had received an apology, while the other side had to gesture...
...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...