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Saturday, January 12, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Death, taxes and tariffs
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The Arroyo administration is getting burned by its move to cut the
tariff on diesel imports by 1 percent. The tariff cut aims to stem
the tide of inflation that the drastically risen world oil price is
pushing our way. The President hopes it would stop jeepney and bus
operators and drivers from raising fares. It would therefore benefit
the 80 million Filipino daily jeepney and bus commuters.
The problem is that the move would cost the
government P11 billion in lost tariff revenues. That would be all
right if there were other sources to replace that sizeable loss,
like dramatically higher BIR collections. But collections may even
be lowered as a result of reduced business activity and consumer
spending.
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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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Re-entry
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A son returned to Canada after spending two weeks with us for the
holidays. Reuel, musician and programmer, has spent 35 years of his
42 years in Montreal, and is thoroughly assimilated in the culture
of his adopted country.
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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Eloisa S. Mabutas
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QUERY: My friends and I were surprised to hear about the
death of Atty. Eloisa S. Mabutas. When we saw her during the
meetings of the United Social Security System Member’s Inc., and
the Adamson University Parents’ Association, she appeared to be
very healthy.
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Law
And Philosophy Matter(s)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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Lessons from the
Jalosjos pardon and rape
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CONSENT, in rape cases, is viewed from the perspective of the
accused, not of the victim. This is consistent with the doctrine of
mens rea. So long as the accused had the impression that the victim
consented, he is innocent in the law’s eyes.
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Customary laws and
ancestral domain
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BARANGAY Minalwang in Claveria, Misamis Oriental, is composed of a
cluster of six Higaonon sitios.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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The parenthesis and its uses
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WE are all familiar with the two curved marks that we know as the
parenthesis ( ), but what some of us may not know is that in English
grammar, the parenthesis is actually any amplifying or explanatory
word, phrase, or sentence that’s set off from a sentence or
passage by some form of punctuation.
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Asian economies to maintain
growth momentum in 2008
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Bangkok: East Asia’s economic growth is expected to moderate to
7.7 percent in 2008, a slight decline from 8.4 percent in 2007,
according to a United Nations economic report released Dec. 11.
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