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...looking for the headquarters of the People's Champ Movement, the political vehicle of Philippine boxing god Manny "Pac-Man" Pacquiao, here's some advice: take a torch. Lying at the end of a murky corridor in a building in General Santos, a city in the southern Philippines plagued by power shortages, the two-room office is cramped, sweltering and lit by a single candle. And the emergency generator? "Broken," admits Grace, a staff member, fanning herself with an envelope...
...long way from the dazzling lights of Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where earlier this month the Pac-Man demolished Ghanaian challenger Joshua Clottey in 12 low-thrill rounds to retain his World Boxing Organization welterweight crown. The disarray at party headquarters suggests that his next fight - campaigning for a congressional seat in the nearby province of Sarangani in the May 10 elections - won't be so easy. His opponent this time is Roy Chiongbian, a U.S.-educated businessman from a wealthy and well-entrenched political dynasty. "Pacquiao is up for a very tough fight," says Prospero de Vera, professor...
...most Pac-Man fans the world over, the battle for Sarangani is a distant sideshow. The opponent that everyone really wants Pacquiao to fight is undefeated American welterweight Floyd Mayweather Jr. But first a deal must be sealed - the boxers could split $50 million, or the biggest purse in boxing history - and Mayweather must fight his compatriot Shane Mosley on May 1. Will Pacquiao take a break from his last hectic week of campaigning to watch the fight...
...starting to turn into a low roar as the Filipino boxer, clad in a red tracksuit, dashes around the dirt oval despite a painful shin splint. A handful of early-arriving students hang on the chain-link fence surrounding the track and watch him do his work. The Pac-Man is preparing for his March 13 fight against Joshua Clottey, a dangerous but relatively unknown welterweight from Ghana. The $49.95 pay-per-view fight is billed as "The Event" but could easily be called "The Letdown...
...banker--at First Boston, then at the boutique firm he founded, Wasserstein Perella, and finally as CEO of Lazard--that he made his mark. Wasserstein presided over the rise of the "Big Deal" (the title of a book he published in 1997), dreamed up takeover tactics like the Pac-Man defense and was sought by CEOs for his creative ideas on offense and defense alike...