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...convoy rolls down San Pedro Street, with Duterte in the lead on one of his beloved motorcycles. He is followed by two other bikes and a pickup bearing M16 toting bodyguards. Now and again, he lets loose a siren, in part to clear traffic, in part to signal that the mayor is on the prowl. Some people stare. Others wave. A few duck swiftly into the shadows. Duterte says he "patrols" twice a week, usually late at night, stopping at precinct houses to see who's in the holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing...
...used to think I could quit checking my e-mail any time I wanted to, but I stopped kidding myself years ago. My e-mail program is up and running 24 hours a day, and once I submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...used to think I could quit checking my e-mail any time I wanted to, but I stopped kidding myself years ago. My e-mail program is up and running 24 hours a day, and once I submit to its siren call, whole hours can go missing. I have a friend who recently found herself stuck on a cruise ship near Panama that didn't offer e-mail, so she chartered a helicopter to take her to the nearest Internet cafe. There was nothing in her queue but junk mail and other spam, but she thought the trip was worth...
...DIED. MARIA FELIX, 88, sultry screen siren of Mexican cinema's golden age whose career spanned 47 films; in Mexico City. Best known for classics of the 40s and 50s like Dona Barbara, La Cucaracha and Enamorada, Felix married four times and had numerous lovers, the painter Diego Rivera among them. In the words of President Vicente Fox: "As an artist she gave everything to Mexico." DIED. YU CHI-CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line...
...don’t worry about risking my life. I can get back-up and I know I have plenty of tools on my belt,” she says as she turns on her siren and speeds through the streets of Cambridge...