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Monday, March 26, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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The garrisons of
Metro Manila |
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Agarrison is described as a military outpost set up
in a city, town or village to watch over the populace. During World
War II, Japanese forces established garrisons in the Philippines,
and for many Filipinos those outposts were a reminder of oppression
and occupation.
The stationing of soldiers in the
poorest communities in Metro Manila has revived the paranoia over
garrisons. Leftist organizations denounce the deployment as
political harassment. Party-list members and students complain the
soldiers are on an indoctrination mission. The Commission on
Elections is worried the presence of troops could interfere in the
conduct of the May polls. Even Malacañang is not clear on why the
soldiers are there and wants an explanation from the Armed Forces.
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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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Lomibao the
‘caballero’
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Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. is
known to treat the fourth congressional district of Pangasinan as
his fiefdom. He would regularly summon mayors, councilors and
village elders...
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Winning hearts and
minds in cyberspace
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WITH both Team Unity and the
Genuine Opposition running lethargic election campaigns that are
already in danger of sending the nation into a collective yawn (Zzzzzz….!)
we bumped into a bouncy guy from San Francisco...
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DOUBLETAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Talibanisation of
Israel
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AFGHANISTAN was
once ruled by the Taliban, a group used by Pakistan’s government
in the transport and trade of merchandise between the two countries.
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The coordinating
conjunctions revisited
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When we need to link two
grammatically equal sentence elements—whether word to word, phrase
to phrase, or clause to clause—the basic connectives to use are
the coordinating conjunctions.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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A young ICT
entrepreneur
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Meet Dennis N. Mendiola. He is
39. He finished BS Economics, summa cum laude, at the Wharton School
of Finance, University of Pennsylvania. He has a BS Electrical
Engineering Degree, Moore School, also at UPenn.
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INSIDE CONGRESS
Efren L. Danao
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The Outstanding Senators of the
Thirteenth Congress
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Sergio Osmeña
3rd–the minority’s top economist
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Sen. Sergio Osmeña 3rd is one of
the few senators who do not issue press releases. This, however, has
not obscured his strong performance in the Senate, particularly in
the field of economics and finance.
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Pakistan gets
Hindu acting chief justice
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A Hindu judge took over as new
acting chief justice of Pakistan here Saturday in the shadow of a
judicial crisis that has jolted the country’s military leader
Pervez Musharraf.
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