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Saturday, March 10, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Not a gut issue or
malayo sa bituka |
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THE volatility in the stock
exchange and the currency markets has become an embarrassment for
the Arroyo administration. But it should not be.
Since the
local bourse and the peso hit record highs, President Arroyo took no
time in taking credit for their rise. Now that their values have
pulled back from records, the ruling party’s subsequent—and
sudden—silence has become a case of bragging about the wrong
things too early.
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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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State terror
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In the sixties
to the First Quar ter Storm it was called fascism; in the seventies,
martial law and/or dictatorship; in the early eighties, with Marcos
ostensively lifting martial law, “normalization.” In post-EDSA
regimes...
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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Lakas-Kampi-NPC
contest in Romblon
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After three
years of debilitating conflict, the two political stalwarts of
Romblon have finally reconciled. On Tuesday Gov. Perpetuo
“Totoy” Ylagan (NPC) and former congressman and governor Eleandro
“Budoy” Madrona...
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NATURE FOR
LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Efforts at
protecting Tubbataha
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World Wildlife
Fund’s (WWF) case study on Tubbataha reefs reports that in the
early 1980s local and foreign scuba divers discovered Tubbataha
whose remoteness appealed to them.
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GROUND
LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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Make ‘global
warming’ a campaign cause
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THERE was this
bit of news that came out in the papers recently about the
“closing in dangers of global warming.” It said that the
Filipinos are showing rising awareness of the perils their
environment...
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Statement of
nurses on the ANA ‘retake all’ recommendation
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Time and again
we have said that the nursing leakage controversy, if not addressed
properly, will affect the reputation of the nursing profession and
the nursing licensure examination in the Philippines.
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Chirac in Brussels
summit for his EU-stage swansong
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French
President Jacques Chirac’s attendance at the EU summit in Brussels
Thursday and Friday was his farewell on the European stage after 12
years in power.
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Machinery,
popularity or Garci?
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To FPJ fans,
he “lost” in 2004 not due to GMA’s machinery, which was there,
or her popularity, which wasn’t.
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LETTER
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About “As
expected, CGFNS rebuffs Puentevella” (page A1, March 7): Those who
went to Philadelphia to appeal foolishly ignored what the CGFNS had
been telling us Filipinos from the outset.
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