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Friday, January 25, 2008 |
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EDITORIALS
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Our bureaucracy
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TWO weeks going into her retirement, Civil Service Commission
Chairman Katrina Constantino-David called our attention to the
bureaucracy—its size, its problems and the direction it is headed.
Bureaucracy and the civil service system are
synonymous, but for good reasons, the word “bureaucracy” has
acquired a negative note in the Philippine setting.
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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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Dangerous generics
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If the preceding paragraph is all
Greek to you, the reason is that it is—classical Greek to be
exact. It is a portion of the oath written four centuries before
Christ by the ancient father of medicine, Hippocrates, or by one of
his students.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Who to blame for the
US recession
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I WAS looking at the history of the federal funds rate which is
manipulated by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the
Federal Reserve Board, the national central bank of the US. The rate
is the interest banks pay each other when borrowing overnight.
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GROUND
LEVEL
By Godofredo M. Roperos
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The cardinal on
Cebu’s conundrums
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DURING the pontifical mass last Sunday, the climax of the weeklong
celebration of the Feast of the Christ Child, believed to have
arrived in Cebu more than three centuries ago, Cebu Archbishop
Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, in his homily, asked a number of questions
before the Catholic faithful.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Improving education
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AT the comprehensive lecture on education delivered by Sen. Edgardo
Angara at the Sixth Annual Ongpin Memorial Lecture last Jan. 16,
many points worth noting were made that should prod the government
and the private sector to tackle our massive education problems
immediately, seriously and in the right direction.
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Five million more unemployed feared in 2008
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GENEVA: Five million more people risk being made unemployed in 2008
as the global economy struggles with the US subprime crisis and
rising oil prices, the International Labor Organization said on
Wednesday.
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ANALYSIS
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Six-nation talks add pressure on Iran
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BERLIN: The foreign ministers of six nations met
here on Tuesday on the Iranian nuclear issue, adding pressure on
Tehran while seeking diplomacy instead of confrontation.
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