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That might be pushing it, but Pacquiao promises a slicker campaign this time. "I've already established my [political] machinery," he says. "It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it." He has the support of tycoon Senator Manny Villar, a presidential candidate, who joined him on his Sarangani homecoming. On the campaign trail, Pacquiao has fewer bodyguards separating him from adoring fans and voters. Warming up crowds on the campaign trail are his wife Jinkee and mother Dionisia, a.k.a. "Pac-Mom," both household names in the Philippines who were largely...
...arduous manual tally that has traditionally lasted several weeks and offered considerable scope for cheating. "We may be able to modernize the way we vote ... but can we really claim progress if some of us still resort to the Stone Age practice of just bludgeoning opponents," presidential candidate Manuel Villar told reporters. Over the past three weeks, four candidates from the Nacionalista Party, which Villar heads, have been gunned down by hitmen...
...Congress, the bookish-looking lawmaker was pushed to the limelight just a few months ago after the death of his admired mother Corazon, a former president and symbol of democacy during the anti-Marcos struggle. Some pundits predicted his star would quickly fade, but that hasn't happened. Manuel Villar, a rags-to-riches real estate developer born in Manila's Tondo port area, is placing second. Behind him is ousted former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada. He was convicted on corruption charges in 2007, sentenced to life imprisonment and then pardoned by current President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The 72-year...
...troubles in the stands seriously enough. "In many cases, those in professional soccer aren't conscious that this is a new kind of violence. They don't think it matters." Evidence of that assertion is easy to find. After the incident in Zaragoza, rfef president Angel María Villar told the uefa/fare Unite Against Racism conference in Barcelona: "We shouldn't make a mountain out of a molehill." Zaragoza coach and former Barcelona player Victor Muñoz denounced the fans' behavior, but added that the same thing occurs in all Spanish stadiums, including Barcelona's. The new fifa...
Villaraigosa is candid about the mistakes he has made. "My whole life has been one of falling down and getting up again," he says. Born Antonio Villar (he added his wife's surname Raigosa when he married), he grew up watching his father beat his mother and then took his own anger onto the streets, getting into fights. He was kicked out of one school, dropped out of another, and probably would never have graduated if not for Herman Katz, a teacher at Roosevelt High, who plucked him from a remedial English class and propelled him on to graduate from...