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...Ramon Amezcua signs a few autographs and nods his head rhythmically to the distinctive, trippy sounds of Hiporboreal. Pepe Mogt is stationed behind the soundboard, checking levels and thinking about how he will close the show with a DJ set. Nortec has made Pepe a successful man. He recently quit his $12-an-hour job as a chemical engineer at a maquiladora, where he mapped computer formulas for face creams. Tijuana Sessions is selling well, and he has lucrative gigs scheduled this summer in Los Angeles, London and Barcelona. His home, in Tijuana's Las Playas neighborhood, has an ocean...
...denounced it last week for "spin and deceit." Turnout on election day is expected to be low because of voter suspicion that Blair's notion of a radical second term will be more disappointment, attractively packaged. Both friend and foe can now be heard in Westminster predicting Blair will quit during the next term. A longtime adviser suggests the Prime Minister will indeed leave in four or five years, while he's still young enough to do something else - an outcome deeply desired by his heir apparent Gordon Brown, the brooding Chancellor of the Exchequer. A Liberal Democrat official...
...Boeken, 56, has smoked two packs of Marlboro cigarettes every day for the last 43 years, despite repeated attempts to quit. He now has lung cancer, which has spread to his brain, back and lymph nodes; doctors give him less than a year to live. Who?s responsible for this sad state of affairs? According to a Los Angeles jury, his impending death can be blamed directly on Philip Morris, the manufacturer of Marlboro cigarettes. The reason? Boeken says he believed the company's long-standing insistence that cigarettes are not addictive. And while juries had long been skeptical...
...work as co-chair of the Hillel Dramatic Society brought two of her greatest loves together. During the past fall, the organization faced a difficult task as they were unable to retain the rights to perform a David Mamet play, and the director of the replacement show quit...
...What's amazing is their attitude," Smyth said. "We're racing against the best in the world, and they don't quit. They don't complain, they have fun, they keep it in perspective, and they're competitive...