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...player: Rap music (50 Cent—“P.I.M.P.” is his cell phone ring and he likes the song too, also the rap remix of Mariah Carey’s “Heartbreaker”), Latin music, Europop and techno...
...casual visitors. The boy who had nothing has much to lose now. Under orders from Pacquiao, his sons - toddlers Emmanuel Jr. and Michael - are kept in an air-conditioned back room all day, out of reach of kidnappers. Pacquiao has said he'll forbid his sons to enter the ring, but Dionisia understands how powerless parental desires can be. "If your children want to do something, you cannot dictate to them," she says, smiling as she watches her grandsons. "After all, I wanted Manny to be a priest...
...powerful puncher with little discipline and less fear. "There was hardly any science in his fighting," says Rudy Salud, a Manila-based boxing manager and former secretary-general of the World Boxing Council (WBC). "He fought like a mad dog. He was rather wild out of the ring, too." Pacquiao admits he drank and gambled in those days after he temporarily abandoned the devout Catholic faith he was raised in. "I lost that for a while when I came to Manila," Pacquiao says. "But God was always looking...
...speaks as much about his life after boxing, his plans to become a professional pool player or dabble in politics, as he does about his next bout. His serenity might be the sign of a fighter who has nothing left to prove - and who is therefore vulnerable in the ring. Does he still have the hunger, the pride, to compete? Trinidad thinks so: "He is not proud of his skills, but he is proud of his heart." Even though Pacquiao is no longer the underdog, says Salud, he will still fight like one: "His courage is such that his fights...
...Ryan Adams, John Mayer, Ben Lee, Jason Mraz, Chris Carrabba, Evan Dando, David Gray and countless others, you could easily hold a Lilith Fair stocked with sensitive white guys, though to exhaust the supply, it would have to be performed over several agonizing days, sort of a James Taylor Ring Cycle. There are worse things than a glut of smart songwriters, but you can't help thinking that if a few of them started churning out some speed-metal tunes, they might be doing themselves--and record stores--a big favor...