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Monday, March 12, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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The frenzy to catch
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The authorities’ sudden obsession to arrest Satur
Ocampo reeks of political scheming. How else explain the rush to
serve a warrant for a crime he allegedly committed more than 20
years ago, or the insidious police raid on the militant lawmaker’s
house last week.
Ocampo’s colleagues in Bayan
Muna strongly suspect that the intention, far from the serving of
justice, is to short circuit the party-list group’s campaign for
the May elections.
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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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GO masterstroke
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Quarters sympathetic to the
Arroyo administration pooh-poohed the appointment of Sen. Sergio
Osmeña III as campaign manager of the Genuine Opposition senatorial
ticket.
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Senate President
Villar–the consummate politician
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IF you are searching for the most
consummate politician currently around you probably need look no
further than Senate President Manny Villar.
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Little terminators
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AMERICA and United King dom
figure as the wealthiest nations providing the least services and
showing the least concern for their children. Ranking at the bottom
of the latest United Nations survey on child welfare...
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Master the
conjunctions or the prepositions first?
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Which should get higher priority
in an English refresher course: mastery of the conjunctions or
mastery of the prepositions?
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Does Islamic
feminism exist?
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HAPPY Women’s Month!On March 8,
Filipinas had an opportunity to celebrate Women’s Day together
with sisters from all over the world. Most Pinays don’t know this
but it was Sen. Santanina T. Rasul, a devout Muslim...
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INSIDE CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The Outstanding Senators of the 13th
Congress
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II–Joker Arroyo
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The oversight function and the
power to investigate are legislative weapons that could either be an
unguided missile that could inflict a lot of collateral damage, or a
smart bomb that could strike only the intended object.
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State takes
possession in first South African farm expropriation
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South Africa announced on March 9
it had begun forcibly redressing the land grievances of the
apartheid era by expropriating a 25,000-hectare farm in the heart of
the Northern Cape.
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