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Monday, April 07, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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No time to dilly-dally
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FROM a monthly statistic in the news, the inflation rate has begun
taking a bite into more than just the public consciousness. The
average rate of price increases has more than doubled from less than
three percent a year ago to nearly six percent this year. Said
differently, we have witnessed a more than a hundred percent jump in
the inflation rate. Couched in those terms, the above five percent
rise in prices sounds more threatening.
In what is one of the few luxuries of many
Filipino households, dining in a Jollibee fast-food outlet has
become costlier.
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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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Natural response to
danger
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FIFTEEN judges in the Philippines have been murdered since 1999,
invariably ambushed by gun-wielding killers. It is not yet clear how
many of those murder cases have been solved. In all likelihood, none
of them has.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Soap-to-nuts style from Mar Roxas
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WITH screaming headlines on the rice crisis now the staple diet in
almost every major newspaper in the Asia/Pacific region..
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Wright is wrong
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REVEREND Jeremiah Wright Jr., five years ago, vehemently delivered
an inflammatory homily against his nation America for its
government’s long history of slavery of Africans...
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Solidarity and sin
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I saw the permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations
on Raymond Arroyo’s Saturday a.m. EWTN program. Archbishop
Celestino Migliore looks to me like Vittorio de Sica when the actor
was young (40 or so).
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Fitna
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Dutch MP Geertz Wilders has gained his 15 seconds of global fame (or
infamy) with the posting of the 15-minute short movie “Fitna.”
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Congress and the
tight rural credit squeeze
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Fix the problem, not the blame!This has been the cry of Sen. Richard
Gordon in Senate investigations and public hearings. For the most
part, this cry has fallen on deaf ears.
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