But Sin and Aquino fear cha-cha opens the door to rolling back democratic protections put in place to ensure no return to the authoritarianism of former president Ferdinand Marcos.

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At 16 factories Brough, 36, was all but shoved out the door by eye-rolling cobblers who didn't want to make smallish batches of labor-intensive nonleather shoes that, to meet Brough's standards, would require animal-free glue.

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The maps of these days, superimposed, would have made a tangle, but every morning he emerged from the same place, just as the sun came up, and every evening he returned there, tired now, darkened, switching off the bike, rolling it over the wooden threshold of the door leading into the courtyard, the engine ticking as it cooled.

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The killing of Clements, 58, shocked his quiet neighborhood in Monument, a town of rolling hills north of Colorado Springs, for its brutality: He answered the door of his home Tuesday evening and was gunned down.

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