George Halas was certainly in the twilight of his pro football career—player, coach and owner—in the mid-1960s. He had his critics, even though the Chicago Bears had won the NFL championship in 1963. Papa Halas fully understood that drafting...
There are many beautiful women in the Philippines, and I can name a few myself. But the loveliest of all is a stout 78-year-old grandmother named Aida D. Fariscal. A humble housewife, she joined the Manila police force after her husband died in...
There is a fundamental difference between receiving an invitation to somebody’s house, and just walking up and knocking on the door. In the first case, you will most likely be invited in and treated with a measure of respect. While that’s...
Bryan Adams’ two feeder junior high schools are Robert T. Hill and William H. Gaston. According to Google, they are just 3.1 miles apart. I propose to take a quick look at these educational institutions and the men for whom they were named. Since...
On the way to Express Bus Terminal for a late-afternoon departure, I ran into a former law-firm colleague named Jang Du-Hyun. We had only a minute to talk. He knew about my many travels and thus was not surprised to learn that I was going to a...
South Korea’s Moon Jae-In and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-Un, met at Panmunjeom on April 27, 2018. Amid considerable theatrics, they shook hands, hugged, ate a super-fancy dinner and shared toasts. Early in the summit, they moved apart...
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