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...great Manny Pacquiao. The fighter also known as "Pac-Man" won in a knockout, beating British boxer Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton on May 2 and becoming the International Boxing Organization and Ring Magazine World Light Welterweight champion. It was a world record-tying sixth division title and fourth consecutive win in a different weight class. All that plus a 49-3-2 record are why some may think of him as the best fighter of a generation...
...failed 2007 bid to win a Philippines Congressional seat, he lost to incumbent Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio by nearly 37,000 votes. His decision to run had turned off many Filipinos, with analysts predicting politics could destroy his boxing career. His fans celebrated the loss, calling it a victory for boxing. Pacquiao says he will retire from boxing in 2009 and run in the Philippine general election of 2010 with his eye on a different congressional seat...
...polls. That was the powerful lesson of local elections held last Nov. 29 in New Delhi. The polls opened while the siege of Mumbai was still going on, and many political observers expected that the BJP, which had relentlessly portrayed Congress as "soft on terror," would win. Instead, young voters gave the ruling Congress Party credit for the Delhi Metro, a new mass-transit system, and re-elected Sheila Dikshit, the city's 71-year-old chief minister. "Age was not the criteria," Deshmukh says. The calculation was, he explains, much simpler. "If you deliver, you will get my vote...
...larger-than-expected number of seats in last year's elections. With that mandate, they started pressing for an integration of the guerrillas en masse. The Army said it preferred to be more selective about the process. "What the Maoists wanted to do after being energized in their win was to go against the gentlemen's agreement," says Kanak Mani Dixit, Nepali journalist and political analyst, "they started demanding complete merger. They injected deep distrust among all political players." (Check out a story about the massacre of Nepal's royal family...
...successful, gruesome, tragic and sometimes all of the above. In 1981, a 27-year-old member of the Irish Republican Army named Bobby Sands led a hunger strike at Her Majesty's Prison Maze in Belfast, where he was serving time for gun possession, and used the attention to win a seat in the British parliament. He never served his term, though; he starved to death after 66 days without food. (See pictures of how Northern Ireland has transformed itself...