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Friday, August 10, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Buffoonery |
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The tragic state of Philippine public life is
crystallized in the buffoonery of all the characters involved in the
picaresque saga of Lintang Bedol.
After blatantly not doing his
duty as Commission on Election supervisor in Maguindanao—and
worse, allegedly conniving with others to frustrate the will of the
voters of that province—he refused to be contacted by his Manila
superiors. As far as everyone in Maguindanao knew he had
disappeared. He became unavailable for questioning about the true
facts of the conduct of the polls in that province and the fate of
election documents.
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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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Lowered BIR
targets raise eyebrows
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JUST the other week the
Department of Finance announced that the revenue collection target
for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has been slashed from
P765.8 billion to P741.3 billion, or a reduction of about P25
billion.
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HEADS UP
By Joel P.
Palacios
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Cadaver-looking
‘kumpare’
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Unlike the appearanceconscious
youths tinkering with their looks, old people don’t fool around
with their faces. What for? Old people have only two prospects: they
are either look bloated or emaciated.
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T.G.I.F
By Rene Saguisag
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Raul’s right to
privacy
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JUSTICE Secretary Raul M.
Gonzalez refuses to disclose what his ailment is and would not even
reveal the location of the hospital where he was confined. Does the
public have a right to know?
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Why the income
disparity
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The Asian Development Bank is
again heckling the Philippines, noting the widening gap between the
rich and the poor in the country and the rest of the developing
Asia, and claiming this gap is a threat to growth.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Berlin today (Part
1)
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After seeing the bleak and lonely
streets of East Berlin in the award-winning German movie The Lives
of Others (Der leben anderen), I decided to see Berlin today myself.
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Musharraf could
declare state
of emergency before ‘peace jirga’ ends
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IF events in the next two days
push Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf to do so, he will have
declared a state of emergency before the “peace jirga” between
tribals of the northwest...
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