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Saturday, January 27, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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A questionable
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The Philippine National Police
should throw out the window Supt. Wilfredo Dulay’s recommendation
to give commendations to the police officers who assaulted the
Iloilo provincial capitol on January 17.
Dulay, the police director for
western Visayas, on Thursday told the Senate Committee on Public
Order that he had recommended commendations for the officers and men
who menaced unarmed civilians in the capitol premises. The
commendation would include promotion, medals and compensation.
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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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THE OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Filipinos
everywhere
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This is the title of a book
launched by IBON Foundation when the author, Prof. Epifanio San Juan
Jr., visited his homeland and gave a lecture on the Filipino
overseas workers at the Ateneo Loyola campus.
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ABOVE ALL THINGS
By Ramon Jr. &
Eloisa S. Mabutas
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Letter received
about adoption
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I am a poor jobless provinciano
who is now in hot water for following the orders of my foster nanang.
Last year she directed me to sell a parcel of land [a little over
350 square meters, more or less]...
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Moral ascendancy
and the martial law mentality
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Arbitrary, unstable, in competent
and corrupt is, sadly, a fair way of describing—in
general—governance in the Philippines.
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Mining: The final
analysis
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Adesperate country seeks wealth
at any cost, inspired by tales of far-off lands grown rich and
decadent off the wealth buried beneath their soil. Yet these tales
are in a certain way...
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GROUND LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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RP’s human
export buoys up economy
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In the office of the Department
of Foreign Affairs in Region 7, where passports applications are
being processed and issued, you have to be there at dawn and line up
for your number, from 1 to 250 more or less.
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Poll: Only three
percent of Indians understand economic reforms
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NEW DELHI: India, which
celebrated its 58th anniversary as a republic yesterday, January 26,
may be registering blistering rates of growth but only three percent
of its people understand the economic reforms...
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The search is
often just as important as the find
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Good morning friends. On behalf
of the presidents of the Consortium on Women’s Colleges (CWC)—my
sisters, Sr. Gertrude Borres of Assumption College, Sr. Ancille Elveña
of the College of the Holy Spirit, and Sr.
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