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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Obscene
revisionism |
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
must be driven by all kinds of pressures to obscenely stand firm on
the idea that the Japanese military during World War II was not
guilty of forcibly using Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese as well as
Taiwan-Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino women to relieve Japanese
soldiers of their sexual hunger. “There was no coercion such as
kidnappings by the Japanese authorities. There is no reliable
testimony that proves kidnapping,” Abe said. It was economic
reasons and pimps who made these women allow themselves to become
whores to Japanese soldiers, he claims.
He must
acutely feel the need to protect till eternity the purity of his
beloved Japanese military caste’s image.
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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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Negros farmers
still wary
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Twenty-five
farmers from Hacienda Velez-Malaga in Negros Occidental are on the
verge of reaping the fruits of their decade-old struggle. Yet even
on the cusp of victory, they continue to regard with suspicion the
government.
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ABOVE ALL
THINGS
By Ramon Jr. &
Eloisa S. Mabutas
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Libel suits
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LETTER
received: I am a Muslim residing in Cebu City and engaged in
business there. Three months ago the Cebu Expose (not that paper’s
real name) came out with derogatory remarks against my person and
business...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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When kids don’t
go to school
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In the 2006
IMD survey of competitiveness, the Philippines has slid from No. 31
in 1996 to 52nd in 2004 and improving slightly to 49th in 2005.
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REPUBLIC
SERVICE
By Ricardo Saludo
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Making a
Difference on May 14
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Don’t curse
the darkness. Light a candle. That motto inspired Jose Concepcion
Jr. to spearhead the National Citizens’ Movement for Free
Elections (Namfrel) in the umbra of the Marcos dictatorship in 1984.
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They are not fit
to write our laws
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The fielding
of Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III and Alan Peter Cayetano as
senatorial candidates only means that the “Genuine Opposition”
does not mind creating dynasties in our exceptionally small Senate...
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A Filipina of many facets
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Fashionable,
formidable, unforgettable Doña Victoria
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Yesterday was
the 100th birthday of Doña Victoria Lopez de Araneta, a Filipina
who decades before the female gender would define “Women’s
Liberation” lived it.
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Three festive
religious events last Sunday
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Chinese-Indonesians
in Jakarta celebrated “Cap Go Meh,” or the Lantern Festival,
that ended the 15-day Lunar New Year festivities. Official
suppressed for decades, with the end of the Suharto era in 1998...
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