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Monday, April 30, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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A bloody election
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The ritual of bloodshed that is played out every elec
tion season has become even more intense as May 14 draws nearer. In
Jaen, Nueva Ecija, supporters of two rival political kingpins shot
it out in the middle of town, the gunfight leaving a candidate for
municipal councilor and a policeman dead and 12 others wounded.
In San Carlos City, Pangasinan,
the mayor was attacked by gunmen at the height of the city fiesta,
wounding him critically.
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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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BIG DEAL
By Dan Mariano
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Labor-only
contracting, a new shade of slavery
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As the country—along with the
rest of the world, save for the United States—observes Labor Day
on Tuesday, unions of every ideological stripe are set to press for
higher wages.
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Battle royal in
Ilocos Norte
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IF not for the sudden and
dramatic turn of events in the Ilocos Norte political galaxy, the
ambitions of the province’s sporting czar Michael Marcos Keon
would probably have stretched no further than hoping to extend...
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Learning about
justice
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WRITER Joshua
Zeitz pays tribute to America’s greatest judges who possessed
moral courage despite social ostracism during the American
apartheid. Among those judges, Justice Richard Taylor Rives Sr.
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INSIDE CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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No doubt, Cebu is
PGMA country!
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President Arroyo’s hus-band was
ailing in a hospital. She could have spent more of her free time
with him, but last Friday, she used about five hours of her precious
time with the Cebuanos instead.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Wolfowitz’s days
numbered at WB
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There are signs Paul Wolfowitz’s
days as president of the World Bank are numbered.
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The prepositions
as connectives–I
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When I began this series on
connectives seven columns ago, I decided to take up the prepositions
for last even as I acknowledged that they are even more basic than
the conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs...
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Russia bids
farewell to legendary cellist Rostropovich
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Russia bade an emotional farewell
on Sunday to Mstislav Rostropovich, the music legend who became a
powerful emblem of resistance to the Soviet communist system.
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