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Friday, December 05, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Two peace talks look doomed
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President Gloria Arroyo’s hopes to start 2009
on a bright note on the law and order front appears doomed with the
responses of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the
National Democratic Front (NDF) to her overtures for the resumption
of peace talks with the two anti-government groups.
Last month, she expressed readiness to restart
informal peace negotiations with the NDF in Oslo, Norway, hoping to
end the 40-year violent insurgency of the New People’s Army (NPA).
The NDF is the Communist Party-led coalition of anti-government
groups and the NPA is the military arm of the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP).
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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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‘Cha-cha’ idiocy
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Apart from leading Catholic clerics, leftwing activists and the
political opposition, who else is objecting to the initiative to
amend or revise the 1987 Constitution?
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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The three ‘chas’
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Acontroversial issue has infected Congress like a malignant tumor
and several representatives of the people are delirious. Despite
powerful attempts by the opposition and militant groups to stamp it
out, the issue refuses to go away.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine Louise Viernes
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A diamond for the
youth
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There are so many things that we want to see happen in our lives.
Each one of us has hopes and dreams unique to our values,
personalities and sensibilities. I, especially with my inconceivably
hyperactive imagination and creativity, have a...
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KAYA NATIN
By Teodoro Baguilat Jr.
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Let me be the
change
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Young Aliguyon treaded softly into the grove as if he were afraid to
disturb the reverie of spirits that dwelled in the forest.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Terrorism must not be
condoned
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The terrorist attack on Mumbai is a chilling reminder that the 21st
century conflicts have chosen to use terrorism as a means to
intimidate, vindicate or win the issues being fought. The
indiscriminate use of violence against the enemy...
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ANALYSIS
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The Thai king always wins
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Thailand is facing its third and greatest crisis since World War II
and by far the greatest test of its monarch’s power. It is
difficult for outsiders to comprehend how so revered but distant a
leader can wield such extraordinary powers...
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LETTER
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PRC-US relations,
Fuerte to Prosper
On Mr. Joachim Proper’s rebuttal of my letter
(Tuesday Nov. 2 “On racism in USA, reply to J. Fuerte”), let me
clarify that my issue with Mr. Posper was his...
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