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Sunday, August 19, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Monsoon tourism |
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YOU may curse the rain but we heard the bright boys
at the Department of Tourism are thinking of using our monsoon rains
to attract tourists. They call it monsoon tourism.
There are only two types of
weather in the Philippines: wet (rainy) or dry (sunny). God created
the Philippine sun, sand and sea to attract visitors from the West.
Who would enjoy our rain? Tourists from Arab countries, according to
the tourism office.
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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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Full circle
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I’d like to offer a few bits of
historical information—as best I can—to the current debate on
textbooks.
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Peter Favila’s
fuzzy debit-credit
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Peter Favila, the trade and
industry secretary, has lived in the axis of debit-credit through
most of his professional life. As such, he has a trained eye on
correct and wrong entries. On the accounting spreadsheet, this is a
cardinal rule: what should be rightfully entered as credit should
not be entered as debit.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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The battle for the
best: Breast-feeding or bottle?
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Why would multinational
corporations interfere in the sovereign and internal affairs of the
Philippines? There is only one answer: it is to protect their sales,
profits and shareholders.
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ONE MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Public figures and
media
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YES, you are reading the right
paper. I have moved to a new corner because my former host has
decided on a change of policy. I write as I write since 35 years ago
when I also lost my job because of a change of policy.
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LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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Sex and feminism
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A newspaper article recently
published the results of a five-year study conducted by researchers
at the University of Texas on the reasons why men and women have
sex.
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No more fear of
human rights
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People often say that life begins
at 40. Apparently, this is true for the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations. At that age, Asean will have a charter.
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