Perryscope by Perry Diaz Music maestro! It’s Cha-Cha time! 1-2-3 cha cha cha… Three steps forward, three steps backward. Few simple steps make this relatively new dance — introduced in the US in 1954 — very popular, especially among the middle-aged Filipino-Americans. Go to a Filipino party and you’d fill the dance floor when [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy of Boston, Massachusetts was the Democratic presidential candidate against the Republican candidate, former Vice President Richard Nixon. It was a very close contest. But what made this particular political duel unique was that Kennedy — or JFK as he was popularly called — was the [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz I received an email a few days after the presidential election with a picture of the map of the United States in red and blue colors. ‘The Map’ as it was called shows the counties in red where President Bush won and the counties in blue where Senator Kerry won. [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The Twelfth Annual Gala Banquet and Ball honoring the Twenty Outstanding Filipino-Americans (T.O.F.A.) in the United States and Canada was another banner year. Held every year in Washington, DC, the prestigious event celebrated this year’s Circle of Leaders, a select group of 20 men and women nominated by various organizations [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz “Neck and neck down the stretch,” the Sacramento Bee headline says. “Six new polls suggest Bush-Kerry race could go either way. It is really down to the wire, folks. Nobody is making any predictions because the presidential derby is at a statistical dead heat. Whoever is going to win in tomorrow’s [...]
