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Friday, October 12, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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‘Promdi’ on page one
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ARE you getting tired of the ZTE-NBN investigation, the Jpepa
squabble, the unending “Hello, Garci” probe, the debate on the
cyber-education program, new attempts to impeach President Arroyo
and the born-again bribery charges in the termite-bitten House of
Representatives?
These matters are invested with the “national
interest,” according to the players, and that “national
security” is at stake. These are grand phrases but we bet none
among the self-advertised statesmen in the Congress or the Executive
can define what the national interest is. Self-interest is more like
it.
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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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Save Sibuyan
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Colleague Julius Fortuna used to wax poetic whenever he described
Sibuyan Island, which lies close to his native island of Odiongan in
the province of Romblon.
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HEADS UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Guess who?
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A40-foot trailer truck running at a fast clip at the South Luzon
Expressway rammed a car, crashed through the concrete barriers
separating the opposite lanes and collided head-on with two
on-coming vehicles.
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T.G.I.F
By Rene Saguisag
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The ‘Myanmrization’ of
the Philippines
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GMA says the China deals are dead. Gen. Eddie Ermita and Gen. Larry
Mendoza say, nope, it ain’t so.
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VIRTUAL REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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JPEPA: Japan welcomes nurses
and seamen
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Here is the continuation of my column yesterday on the advantages of
the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement, according to
the report of the Senate Economic Planning Office...
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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An afternoon of beauty
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While most of the population in this country was glued to their
television sets for the Manny Pacquiao-Marco Antonio Barrera fight,
I was tooling around the Cavite countryside with my balikbayan
friend, Bunny, and my two local friends, John and Jonathan.
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Germany’s Gerhard Ertl wins Nobel Chemistry
Prize
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STOCKHOLM: Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel
Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has
become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped fight
to fix the ozone hole.
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