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EDITORIAL
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WHY do we need a civilian to head the Department of
National Defense?
Because, according to Lloyd George, “war is much too serious a
matter to be entrusted to the military.”
But presidential spokesman
Ignacio Bunye says Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. is “civilian”
enough to qualify for the job. Isn’t it true Ebdane used to wear
his barong Tagalog with his medals on? Of course not, silly.
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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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The false promise
of ethanol
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THE Biofuels Act that President
Arroyo signed into law requires all oil companies to blend at least
5-percent ethanol with regular unleaded gasoline or be fined in
amounts ranging from P50,000 to P100,000 a day.
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Onboard China ’s
juggernaut
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Who and what can stop them?
I am not referring to swarms of People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
soldiers encircling Philippine cities from the countryside.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Children must be
protected from pornographic exploitation
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One day in October 2006 I was
called to assist in looking for a victim of sexual abuse in Angeles
City. The suspect is a British national with a nasty reputation of
sexual abuse of women and very young girls.
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Vietnam, pledging
to observe religious freedom,
sees ‘road map’ toward normal Vatican ties
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Vietnam has a small but important
Roman Catholic minority of 6 million out of a total population of 84
million.
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Murder intrudes
into Bounty-Mutiny
descendants’ South Pacific island
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On a South Pacific island that
was once the British Empire’s most brutal penal colony, where
there is now no prison and almost no crime, a New Zealander pleaded
innocent Thursday to the first murder charge...
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Shall We Dance? director’s new film
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I Just Didn’t Do
It roundly attacks Japan’s criminal-justice system
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Masayoshi Suo, director of
light-hearted films such as Shall We Dance?, has launched an attack
on Japan’s judicial system in his first film in a decade, about a
man wrongfully accused of groping on a train.
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LETTER
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An internationalized junta of
presidents
Your editorial “A Muslim in the Senate” (Thursday February
5) is surely appreciated by Filipino Muslims.
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