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Padilla grew up in a small gray-stone apartment building in the predominantly Hispanic Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. His nickname was "Pucho," because of his chubby cheeks, says Nelly Ojeda, 63, who has known the family ever since they moved into the apartment above hers 24 years ago. Padilla played baseball in the school yard across the street and attended St. Sylvester Church with his mother, brother and two sisters. To Ojeda, he was nothing but polite. At Darwin Elementary School, school counselor Art Ryder remembers him not as a bully but as a force. "You always...
...team's ascent largely comes courtesy of one gray-haired Dutchman: Guus Hiddink. So popular is the national coach that newspapers have half-jokingly suggested he run for President. Never mind that he isn't Korean. After transforming the country's ragtag side into a power that beat favorites Spain, Italy and Portugal, Hiddink has become the country's favorite adopted...
...Genius" and "Turd Blossom") have already encountered a fair number of problems in California. Winning there won't be easy: the California Republican Party has been in bad shape for more than four years. Rove is hoping to resuscitate it by helping in the campaign against Democratic Governor Gray Davis, but he's had nothing but trouble so far. First, Rove decided the best way to beat Davis was for Bush to handpick the ideal nominee. Bush threw his weight behind Richard Riordan, the moderate former Los Angeles mayor. But Riordan ran a lethargic, unfocused primary campaign, and conservative businessman...
...Ready for his lunch, Jiang sits up and casually unbuttons his sweaty, gray shirt, unself-conscious after years of on-set wardrobe changes. His assistant hands him a fresh shirt?navy blue printed with a herd of fierce, red, glaring bulls. "Ever had horse meat?" he asks as the waitress delivers a plate of blood red sashimi. He clenches a fist and then grips his tensed forearm, adopting the tone of an older, more experienced brother. "It makes you strong...
...These are also the best times to see Australia's most famous fauna up close and personal. Giant gray kangaroos feed in the clearings, and emus?those large, ungainly, flightless birds endemic Down Under?stride comically along the corrugated dirt road that loops the Pinnacles Desert. Though now protected in the area, the birds were in the past a source of food for Aboriginal tribes. Artifacts at least 6,000 years old have been uncovered here, leading geologists to assume that the area was once inhabited. Entry into the park is just $4 a person; accommodation and tours...