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EDITORIAL
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President’s Follow-up Day
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Press Secretary and presidential spokesman
Ignacio Bunye on Saturday announced a new activity in President
Arroyo’s official schedule of appointments, “The Presidential
Follow-up Program.”
“President Arroyo has decided to personally
follow up her instructions to Cabinet departments and other
government offices to ensure enforcement of public laws and
policies,” Bunye told Palace reporters at a press briefing.
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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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CENTER
OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Vindication
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AFTER about 400 years, two victims of religious bigotry and
superstition were vindicated.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The bonfires of
stupidity
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Arecent small news item near the obit page about the
Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement also had a funereal
air to it: a group of NGOs said it will impose a political death
sentence on senators who would vote for the ratification of the
landmark agreement.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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The Pope goes to
Washington
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By the time this piece gets into print, Pope Benedict XVI would be
winding up his first visit to the United States. He has been to the
US before but that was when he still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head
of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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A one-sided report
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There was no comfort in the Philippine report to the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva last week for 14-year-old Felix Avila: emaciated,
half-staved, brutalized, shocked and dazed as he was helped walk
from behind the bars of a police detention center in Metro Manila.
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Earth Day at the CCP
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On Tuesday, April 22, Earth Day will be celebrated around the world
with a myriad of events and activities that seek to broaden the base
of support for environmental programs, rekindle public commitment
and build community activism around the world.
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“Human rights ... must be respected”
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Excerpts from Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the UNited
nations, April 18, 2008
The life of the community, both domestically and
internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and
the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common
good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and
injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict.
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