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Thursday, May 03, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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Ending campaign
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THE police and the army cannot stop poll violence.
They can help curb lawlessness during the campaign, but they can
only do so much.
They could arrange meetings
between the political factions and plead for sobriety. They can put
patrols on the streets to remind the politicians and their henchmen
that they are ready for any emergency.
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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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EAST
AND WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Diminished
prestige of Namfrel
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As the May 14 polls near, we
notice that the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel)
is not ready to conduct a quick count of the votes.
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Here I Stand
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Deschooling
America
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And so it happened again: another
senseless shooting in an American school. This time not by an
outsider but by a student, a troubled one at that. It is just
several months since the shooting of the Amish children.
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FROM THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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Ahon Pinoy—the
hope of OFWs
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Not since the introduction of the
party-list voting system has a sectoral representative of the 8
million overseas Filipino workers ever been elected to the House of
Representatives.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Fighting the drugs
cartel
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Roberto Pagdanganan is again
running for governor of Bulacan. I am writing about him for what he
did before that, as CEO of the state Philippine International
Trading Corp. (PITC)...
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World leaders hold
key Iraq conference
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: World
leaders converged on the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh
Wednesday for key talks aimed at stabilizing Iraq, the first such
round of multilateral diplomacy since the 2003 invasion.
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Welfare State vs.
Law and Order in Sarko-Sego TV debate
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Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene
Royal geared up for a grueling two-hour television debate scheduled
for 9 p.m. Wednesday (2 a.m. Thursday in Manila) seen as the key
showdown in the French presidential campaign.
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China’s military
seeks best
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BEIJING: Recruiting
“high-caliber” people is key to a new technology-heavy training
plan adopted by China’s military—which now has 10,000 personnel
with doctorates and master’s degrees...
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