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Tuesday, April 10, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Watta country! |
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THE Philippines must be the only country where
election-related violence is commonplace and where the killings of,
and attempts on, politicians and their leaders are taken for
granted.
Take a look at the global map.
Pick out any continent or any country and you will realize that no
place matches ours in political unruliness. One or two
Latin-American countries might.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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MEN & EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Candidates I would
vote for
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From my mailbox, I received a lot
of reactions to my column about the senatorial candidates that I
would not vote for in the May 14 election (TMT, March 27, 2007),
mostly in favor of our choice of noncandidates.
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ETHICS OF LIFE
(PROJECT SYNDICATE)
By Peter Singer
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Should we trust
our moral intuitions?
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When we condemn the behavior of a
politician, celebrity, or friend, we often end up appealing to our
moral intuitions. “It just feels wrong!” we say.
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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AIDS and
reproductive health inform
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“For far too long, the world
was in denial,” Kofi Annan, the former secretary-general of the
United Nations, said in his message on the occasion of World AIDS
Day in December 2006.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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More global
warming effects
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The UN panel on global warming
has come up with its second report. It makes conclusions, which are
mostly bad news and for which man is mainly to blame.
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E. Timor votes to
heal broken nation, Indon vows cooperation
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Voters in East Timor cast their
ballots Monday in a presidential election they hoped would pull them
from a cycle of violence and political tension that has paralyzed
efforts to rebuild one of the world’s poorest nations.
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Sole Brit woman
sailor detained by Iran was stripped, threatened
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LONDON: The female British sailor
captured and held by Iran said in an interview published Monday that
her captors stripped her to her panties, lied to her and threatened
she might never see her baby again.
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Caring for mom and
dad key to career fast-track in China
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BEIJING: Working hard at the
office is not enough to warrant a promotion in one Chinese county,
where a new rule says government employees must also be nice to
their parents, state press reported Monday.
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