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Monday, February 26, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Tough sentences
on
US soldiers guilty of crimes in Iraq |
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Civilian courts and courts-martial
in the US have begun to give tough sentences on American soldiers
found guilty of killing, raping or in other ways mistreating Iraqi
civilians.
Life sentences
were meted out by a court-martial to two soldiers who had pleaded
guilty to raping and murdering an Iraqi girl and three members of
her family in March 2006. Two other soldiers facing lesser charges
will still be tried by the same court-martial in Fort Campbel,
Kentucky. A fifth man, who could be the instigator of the crimes,
has been dismissed from the US army and will be tried by a federal
court in Kentucky. He could find himself getting the death penalty.
These five men belonged to the prestigious 101st Airborne Division.
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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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Who’s to blame
for Alston?
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“Rapporteur”
is derived from French, but has been adopted in English as reflected
in most dictionaries. To my horror, however, the same word was
rendered in italics in the February 23 edition of this column.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Melo report and
mellowed-down report!
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THERE seems to
be as many twists and turns (and ghoulish entertainment!) emanating
from the release in Manila of the Melo Commission’s report on
extrajudicial killings as there is over the custody battle in
Florida...
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Barack Obama’s
audacity of hope
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ON Barack
Obama’s first day as a senator, occupying a tiny transition office
right next to a janitor’s closet in the basement of the Dirksen
office building, he was asked: “Senator Obama, what is your place
in history?”
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The outstanding
senators of the Thirteenth Congress
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For all
intents and purposes, the Thirteenth Congress has already done
everything that it could even if it still has to meet in plenary
after the May election.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Salceda’s game
plan
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Former
congressman Joey Salceda of Albay is the new presidential chief of
staff, Gloria Arroyo’s man Friday. As such, he has the best access
to the President’s ear.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The absolute
clauses revisited–II
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For us to
answer this question, the previous column made a quick review of the
five most common types of subordinate phrases, then focused on a
sixth type that differs from all of them in one major aspect:
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LETTER
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We, Filipinos,
are lucky to have for our present chief justice the Honorable
Reynato Puno, who does not mind having Supreme Court justices and
other members of the judiciary subjected to the requirement,
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