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Monday, January 29, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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American déjà vu |
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MORE than four
decades after the war in Vietnam gnawed into the American
conscience, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Washington
last Saturday to demand that their government bring an end to
another bloody conflict.
The war in
Iraq has cost the US dearly—a little over 3,000 American lives
have been lost since the invasion of March 2003. There are 133,000
US forces deployed in Iraq, but their presence has done little to
stop the country’s slide into civil strife.
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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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Disunited
Opposition
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SOON after
former senator Francisco “Kit” Tatad bolted the self-styled
United Opposition, his erstwhile colleagues dismissed as sour grapes
the reasons he gave for leaving.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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TransCo sale holds
key to investor confidence
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THE
temperature has been freezing outside even as the atmosphere inside
was hotting up at the annual gab-fest that is the World Economic
Forum held last week in Davos, Switzerland.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The strange world
of RP politics
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SPEAKER Jose
de Venecia, president of Lakas, announced last week the swearing in
of 12 governors as new party members.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The importance of
grammar-perfect English–V
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Sometime in
October, when I went to a dental clinic in one of the big malls in
Metro Manila to have a tooth filling restored, the front-desk clerk
asked me to fill out a patient’s ledger card...
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REPUBLIC
SERVICE
By Ricardo Saludo
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What can stop the
Philippines’ surge?
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IN Singapore
in November, top global hedge fund managers asked me what could go
wrong to shoot down the surging Philippine economy. Every big market
player was bullish about the country, so they wanted to know what
hidden boombuster might they be missing.
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Bush’s portrayal
of Iraq edges closer to critics’ take
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WASHINGTON:
Before the November US elections, President George W. Bush promised
never to put US troops “in the crossfire” of Iraq’s warring
sectarian groups. Last week, he made clear that his new strategy
would do just that.
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Blair:
Yawning gap between global intent and action
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DAVOS,
Switzerland: There’s a “yawning gap” between an understanding
of global challenges like climate change and the capacity to deal
with them, British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned Saturday.
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