Word: villareal
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...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...
...brew. "In an attempt to hide its state of insolvency," he said in a report, Parmalat "entangled itself in gran-diose financial operations that were ever more costly." "OFFENSIVE AND RIDICULOUS" By the end of the '90s, the first red flags began popping up. In late 1999, Esteban Pedro Villar, a partner in the Buenos Aires offices of accountants Deloitte & Touche, filed an internal "early warning report" expressing serious concerns about Parmalat's Latin American operations. He peppered the company with so many questions that cfo Tonna lost his temper. The requests for information are "offensive and ridiculous," Tonna thundered...