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Saturday, February 16, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Sobriety on Charter
change
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Some of the President’s allies
are again reviving their moves to amend the Constitution.
Their plans have been defeated twice, in public and judicial
opinion. They should constrain their zeal for their cause which the
thinking segment of the masses, the leaders of the leading
parties, the bishops of the Catholic Church and the clergy of the
Protestant churches roundly reject.
The president of the Catholic
Bishops Conference of the Philippines, Archbishop Angel Lagdameo of
Jaro, reflected the voice of the majority of the members when he
said that “talk”—not moves but only “talk”—to amend the
Constitution should be done after the 2010 election. He told the
ruling politicians that talking about Cha-cha will only be
misinterpreted by the people as a defensive reaction of the Palace
to anti-Arroyo administration agitations being whipped by scandals
and allegations of corruption.
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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. Ordońez
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Major surgery
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Truly sickening to see another round of cover-up,
dissembling, and brazen denial on the part of Palace functionaries
to counter damaging testimony by a witness on the ZTE deal.
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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A justice
reminisces
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Query: My friends and I greatly admired your
STAR system which appeared last week in The Times. Why does
the Supreme Court not require its observance by the trial courts?
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LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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Two widows in love
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Living and sharing thoughts with my mother since she
had been widowed has gifted me with a fresher and fuller perspective
on aging, life and love.
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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What happened at
Rapu-Rapu
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|This is the conclusion of Sorsogon Bishop Arturo
Bastes’ statement on the 20th anniversary of the CBCP Pastoral
Letter, “What is Happening to our Beautiful Land?”
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The parenthesis
and its uses (Part VI)
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My fifth column last week on the uses of the
parenthesis should have been the last, but something happened that
constrains me to write one more time about the topic.
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‘We say sorry’
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On Feb. 13, the Australian Prime Minister delivered a
speech in parliament where he extended the nation’s apology to the
“stolen generations,” the Aborigines. Here is the partial text
of Australia’s apology.
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LETTER
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Now that the construction of the Manila-Cavite
Coastal Road Project is in full swing, I wish to point out that
there are times during tides that residents of the coastal barangays
suffer seawater floods.
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