Word: manila
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even "The Thrilla' in Manila" wasn't this...
...WILLIAM BOYD will never be accused of taking the safe route. His new novel, The Blue Afternoon (Knopf; 373 pages; $23), is for the most part a superior piece of fiction with unusual, mostly immoral characters, plenty of suspense and a truly ghoulish surprise. Unfortunately, that story, set in Manila in 1902, doesn't begin until page...
...that ``Cochran took one line out of a report given to him. There is a scientific explanation that you will see presented at trial.'') Cochran also said there was a woman who saw four men in knit caps leaving the murder scene. And that the mysterious object in the manila envelope would prove the l.a.p.d.'s collection of evidence was inept. The ``trail of blood,'' Cochran insisted, was actually too sparse to match such bloody crimes. And the lawyer produced the defendant himself, in photos and in person: pictures taken in the days after the murder showed Simpson's mainly...
When Fiona E.F. Murray visited Manila last year, she says she saw one of the worst examples of pollution she had ever encountered...
...There is a place in Manila called Smoking Mountain, and it's basically a mountain formed of pure garbage," says Murray, a graduate student in Harvard's environmental engineering department...