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Monday, January 22, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Cornered but not
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THE Armed Forces is flush with
pride over the string of successes it has scored in its campaign to
crush the Abu Sayyaf. Just last week government troops killed Abu Solaiman,
who had masterminded the Abu Sayyaf’s biggest and bloodiest raids,
including the kidnapping of tourists in Dos Palmas and the bombing
of the SuperFerry 14 off Bataan. And over the weekend, the military
chief, General Hermogenes Esperon, confirmed that the body that had
been dug up from a shallow grave in Jolo in December is that of Abu
Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani.
Solaiman and
Janjalani were among the last of the dreaded group’s most-wanted
leaders; the US had offered million-dollar bounties for them. They
were also the most elusive, having avoided capture for almost seven
years.
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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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What’s really at
stake in May?
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THE
“boomlet” the economy experienced in 2006 is in real danger of
going bust—again—this year. Most analysts agree that the midterm
election looms as the single biggest threat to the country’s
economic gains.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Good news from the
House
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SPEAKER Jose
de Venecia declared last Friday what is decidedly the best news
emanating from the House lately—that the House would give top
priority to the passage of the political party reform measures.
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SOUTHPAW
By Inday Espina Varona
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Lessons in power
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ORDINARY folk
may chafe at the frequently chaotic and squabbling nature of
President Arroyo’s official family. That’s because most of us
are preoccupied with pedestrian concepts like decency and
transparency and ethical action.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Digesting the
lessons of Asean success
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THE just
concluded 12th Association of Southeast Nations (Asean) Summit is
being hailed as one of the most successful gatherings in the
body’s over three decades of existence in terms of staging and
content.
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND
SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The importance of
grammar-perfect English–IV
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IN my column
last week, I dissected this seriously flawed sentence from a
newspaper: “Therefore, the government should recognize the film
industry as an essential commodity.
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Antisatellite
weapons ban,
antiballistic missile defense system proposed
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AS the United
States and its closest allies criticized China for blowing up and
old weather satellite it owns, one of America’s most influential
newspapers, The New York Times, called for an international ban on
any use of antisatellite weapons following a successful test of such
a weapon by China.
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Europe’s
far-right unveil political bloc
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BRUSSELS:
Europe’s anti-immigrant parties have formed a far-right bloc,
boosting the influence of politicians like France’s Jean-Marie Le
Pen and the granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
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