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...very least, the mayor has created an atmosphere in which the death squads feel free to operate with impunity. Last October, Duterte went on television and read out a list of suspects wanted for drug offenses, including policemen. Two of those named were killed within a week. Jun Pala, a former Alsa Masa spokesman and now one of Duterte's fiercest critics, was ambushed last July and shot four times. Pala has suspicions?but no evidence?about who ordered the attack. (Duterte denies involvement.) Pala argues that Duterte deserves no credit for Davao's rebirth. "How can he say Davao...
...based in Heathrow, Fla., a 203-year-old maker of pens, pencils, chalks, watercolors, highlighters and other types of markers, is slashing its marketing budget in spite of a hefty 14% increase in sales last year. "We have to hunker down here," says company president and CEO Gino N. Pala. "We have to watch things closely. I don't think we've felt the worst of the economic crunch yet. I think the damage has already been done, but we've got to work through it." He says that he intends to keep his staffing "flat" in the new year...
...said $80 million had been deposited into a Barings futures account at Citibank. No such transfer took place, and prosecutors are likely to argue that it gave Leeson a way of proving he was making the huge Nikkei trades on behalf of a client. "Once he is here," says Pala Krishnan, one of Singapore's leading criminal attorneys, "the maximum sentence he can receive is 14 years, if he is tried by a lower court. If he is tried by a higher court, then the sentence is life." Leeson and Barings should have got out while they were ahead...
Building on a century-old tradition (as early as 1888 there were nearly 500 tennis courts in the country), Czechoslovaks have dominated major tennis competitions in recent years, making a virtual sweep of last year's U.S. Open. Says Frantisek Pala, head coach of the national team: "Twenty years ago, parents told their children, 'Play piano.' Now it's 'Play tennis.' And we are getting results...
...last few years everybody but J. Press has discovered the franchise, and academics have discovered that you really don't need tweeds to soak up rays next to the pool of your Pala Alto home. Hot-shot academics--and their professional spouses--aren't quite so eager to jump when Harvard whistles them into the game as they were back when Stanford was a horse farm...