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Saturday, July 19, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Don’t let Mindanao
be Balkanized
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On Thursday the government
announced that there has been a breakthrough in the effort to resume
stalled negotiations for a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF). The former Armed Forces of the Philipines
Chief of Staff, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, Jr., who is President
Gloria Arroyo’s new Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process,
told the press that on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur the government and
the MILF had agreed to resume the talks that the MILF had abandoned
in December 2007.
The talks are always held in
Kuala Lumpur because Malaysia has been the host of these
negotiations since they began. The Moro separatist rebels suspended
the talks because they took exception to the Philippine panel’s
version of the agreements reached so far about the thorniest issue
of all—“ancestral domain.”
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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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Theater
and decolonization
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The week before last my wife and I attended two
significant theater events of Tanghalang Filipino at the Cultural
Center of the Philippines. The first was the launching of Savage
Beast edited by Joi Barrios...
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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Parents obliged to
support their children
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Query: Several years ago, Cardo and I met at the
hotel where I was working, which meeting paved the way for our close
relationship. Not knowing that he was a married individual, I fell
in love with him.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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MOPC dinner with
the President
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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo inducted the
officers and governors of the Manila Overseas Press Club (MOPC),
Asia’s oldest press club and the Philippines’ most prestigious
press club., the other night, July 17.
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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Protecting our
forests
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Sixth of seven parts
Multi-sectoral participation is the key strategy in forest
management. The participation of all direct and indirect local
stakeholders in sustainable forestland conservation, management,...
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LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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The Catholic
Church and reproductive health
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The present furor over the various reproductive
health bills sponsored by various senators and congressmen
highlights once again the overindulgent concern the Catholic Church
pays to sexual morality,...
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Rich vocabulary,
poor spelling
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Within the hour after my column on English
pronunciation appeared in the online edition of The Manila Times
last July 12, I received an e-mail with this odd heading: “A gr8
accent alone isn’t gr8 English.”
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LETTER
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Fernando should read Ronquillo
About “The Catholic Church and specific issues: Gambling”
(Law and Philosophy Matter(s) column by Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
on July 12, 2008):
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