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...pretty tough person," she insists, "so for those people (who) underestimate me, that's O.K. with me." She's no stranger to the palace, having lived here as a teenager from 1961 to 1965?her father, Diosdado Macapagal, her hero as parent and politician, was the President. The heavy wood desk in her office was his desk. The programs she espouses?an overarching anti-poverty campaign, empowerment through ownership of land, leadership by example?were also...
...next seven years I was on the road, working as a solo artist, building up to what eventually became a huge album--The Stranger--which came out when I was 28. This completely changed my life. The Stranger became the biggest-selling album in the history of Columbia Records. There were four hit singles. We were headliners and would sell out coliseums, whereas I had been only an opening act for a number of years prior. I became a rock star in every sense of the word. I knew that everything was going to be different. I knew I wasn...
English football is no stranger to errant behavior, but much of it has traditionally come from fans, rather than players. For decades the game has been dogged by the dark shadow of hooliganism, a plague so closely associated with the game's founding country that it is known as the English disease. (An ugly reminder of that malady came on Jan. 6, when police fought fans after a match between Cardiff City and Leeds United; 12 arrests have thus far ensued.) Aggression is such a part of the game that the Football League was recently obliged to consider a code...
...candidates are controversial,” Ogletree said. “West has supported Bill Bradley and [Ralph] Nader in the past. So he is no stranger to supporting candidates considered outside the mainstream...
...running economic crisis spilled on to the streets. In two days of rioting, more than 20 people died. Now, as a matter of cool logic, it is easy to demonstrate that nobody in Washington need lose a minute's sleep over the land of tango. Argentina is hardly a stranger to economic queer streets; its economy is only the size of Ohio's. Besides (so we are told), Wall Street has long since "discounted" the prospect of a default on Argentina's sovereign debt, so there's no need to worry. On the other hand, in 1997 the collapse...