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Sunday, August 11, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Bayani’s bolo
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“The MMDA wants to pursue its plan to arm its
traffic enforcers with bolos to protect themselves because
Malacanang does not object to it, the agency said
yesterday”—Manila Standard Today, Aug. 11, 2007
MAKATI City, August 30, 2007.
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Bayani Fernando
launched yesterday the new MMDA traffic enforcement system in
colorful ceremonies at the MMDA headquarters in Makati City.
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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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CENTER OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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How DOST uses your
money
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Listening to an undersecretary of
the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) at the meeting of
the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) last month, I
recalled Dwight MacDonald’s description of Ford Foundation: “an
island of money surrounded by open palms.”
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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An SOS to Mr.
Sarkozy
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If brain trafficking is allowed
under globalization, we should hurry up and scribble a note to the
president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and make an urgent plea.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Mother’s milk
can’t be bettered
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THIS is breast-feeding week in
the Philippines, when children’s rights advocates try to persuade
mothers that their natural milk is best for their babies and its a
child’s right to be breast-fed.
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How US home-loan
crisis sparks global turmoil but skirts RP
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PARIS: US home loan woes caused
more turmoil on world markets last week despite the tens of billions
of dollars released by central banks to stop the problem turning
into a global economic crisis.
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This dying
Philippine language needs to be saved
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On July 15, 1997, then-President
Fidel Ramos signed Proclamation 1041, designating August as the
“Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.” Celebrating the “Month of the
National Language”....
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LETTER
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PLDT a financial
success but…
The major broadsheets wrote last August 8 the reported 25 percent
increase in income, to an unpredented P8.4 billion in Q2 of
Philippine Long Distance Co., the country’s largest
telecommunications company.
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