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Monday, January 08, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Terrorist threats:
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THE President has
exhorted the people to “put our best foot forward” in hosting
the Asean and East Asia summits that begin in Cebu City on
Wednesday. She made the call amid the warnings from at least three
foreign governments that terrorists could launch an attack during
the conferences.
Military
and police officials were not exactly ignoring the warnings, but
they remain vague about the reported threats. The Armed Forces
chief, General Hermogenes Esperon, said “no concrete plans” for
possible terror attacks have been monitored. The commander of the
Western Mindanao Command ludicrously declared that the Asean Summit
was secure because Islamic terrorists were trapped in Sulu.
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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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Magistrates must
act quickly on Smith case
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THE
issue of who should take custody of Daniel Smith continues to get
many Filipinos all worked up. While popular passions have simmered
down somewhat, it does not look like the controversy will go away
any time soon. In fact, it has not lost its potential for triggering
Filipino outrage all over again.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Politics and the
art of war
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The
United Opposition (UNO) held its national conference at Club
Filipino last Friday to discuss the coming May election. The
ballroom was jampacked, standing-room-only.
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SOUTHPAW
By Inday Espina Varona
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What about the
living?
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IT
was in Cebu City, a couple of years ago, when journalists raised
that question in a conference on conflict reporting.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The importance of
grammar-perfect English—II
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In
this second of a series on jaw-dropping grammar mistakes by people
we least expect to commit them, we’ll take a close look at the
following photo caption that came out in a leading newspaper on the
last day of 2006:
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REPUBLIC
SERVICE
By Ricardo Saludo
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Toward a better
tomorrow
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IF
10 of you in a room and you’re not feeling hopeful about 2007, the
others probably are. That’s what Social Weather Stations found in
its December survey on expectations for the year ahead. More telling
than feelings, however, are hard facts and figures, and here are
some numbers that make the nation’s hope more than hype.
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Bangladesh
opposition threatens to launch transport blockade
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THIS
Agence France-Presse report about the Bangladesh national election,
scheduled for January 22, will strike a chord with Filipinos who are
not very happy with Commissioner Benjamin Abalos and his fellow
Commission on Elections commissioners.
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