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Sunday, January 21, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL |
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Art Buchwald |
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MOST of Art Buchwald’s columns were outrageously funny but one particularly stands out in our mind.
Buchwald writes about a smoker who decides to quit. An officemate checks him out every day on his progress.
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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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Are we prepared for a flu pandemic? |
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MARGARET CHAN, the new head of the World Health Organization (WHO), is calling for renewed vigilance against avian flu.
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Sell. Sell. Sell |
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I silently said my “Little Prayer for the Nation” as 2006 closed and the first glimmer of light of the new year broke out of the midnight gloom. The operative word of the little prayer was this: closure. I prayed for closure to all the sordid, sad and nasty affairs that had weighed down our nation for so long, many of which we carried over from the Marcos rule. It was an emotional prayer with pragmatic underpinnings.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Child labor is slavery
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When I arrived in the sugarcane fields in a swirl of dust churned up by the police vans in Nasugbu, Batangas, two hours drive south of Manila to free the men, women and children from the slave-like conditions, I saw a snapshot of colonial slavery as it was 200 years ago.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul |
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Will killing terrorists kill terrorism? |
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Happy Amon Jadeed! Muslims around the world marked the start of our new year on 1 Muharram 1428 AH (equivalent to January 20, 2007). |
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Chavez says Fidel Castro battling for his life |
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RIO DE JANEIRO: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is fighting for his life, his friend and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said. |
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‘Good wins over evil’ in ‘Big Brother’ racist bullying of Bollywood star |
NEW DELHI: The family of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty hailed Saturday the eviction of her chief tormentor from Big Brother as a triumph of “good over evil”—amid a furor over racist bullying on the show. |
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‘China’s weapons test a threat to India’ |
NEW DELHI: China’s shooting down of a satellite is a threat to India’s space program which plans unmanned missions to the moon and Mars, defense experts and the media said Saturday. |
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LETTER |
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Reports on Muslim women
Two features you published recently, I pray, indicate better times ahead for Muslim women around the world.
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