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Saturday, September 08, 2007 |
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EDITORIAL
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What else is new? |
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A foreigner visiting the Philippines for the first
time reads the papers and watches TV news, gets alarmed, and asks
his Filipino friend: “What the hell is going on in your
country?”
To which the Pinoy replies,
“Nothing to worry about, pal. These are normal times in the
Philippines.”
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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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The trials of Jose
Maria Sison
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The arrest of Jose Maria
“Joma” Sison in Netherlands recalls his capture in Pangasinan in
1976. We were in Montreal at the time, and we heard the dictator say
that the “insurgency” was finished with Sison’s capture.
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ABOVE ALL THINGS
By Ramon Jr. &
Eloisa S. Mabutas
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The hazards of
retirement
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Query: The life of a retiree is
full of miseries. This has been my experience after almost five
years of retirement from a firm where I worked for more than six
decades. I had discharged my duties honestly.
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NATURE FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Japan’s overseas
tree plantations
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According to the Japan Overseas
Plantation for Pulpwood (JOPP) at the end of 2005, 33 forest
plantation projects were conducted overseas by Japanese connected
with papermaking.
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PHILOSOPHY AND
LAW MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q.
Fernando
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The rule of law
and the Estrada trial
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The continuing, seemingly
never-ending, saga of the trial of President Estrada appears to
confirm the claim of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) Movement that
the rule of law under a Western-style liberal...
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ENGLISH PLAIN AND SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The 10 grammar
errors that annoy me most—VII
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Before resuming our discussion on
the problems that arise when intransitive verbs are forced to act
transitively, I would like to share a very interesting feedback to
my column last week from a reader in the United States.
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Russia and APEC:
Stable development in the Asia-Pacific region
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Next year will mark the tenth
anniversary of Russia’s becoming a full‑fledged member of
APEC. It was a committed and strategic choice for us, based on
objective economic factors and geopolitical circumstances.
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