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Monday, June 09, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Reclaiming UP’s world-class status
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WITH a fresh charter and a string of business deals
covering vast landholdings, the University of the Philippines (UP)
may yet break free from the yoke of financial straits that has
prevented it from becoming a true people’s university.
It appears that what the state
university needed was the assumption to power of business-minded
faculty members, which is ironic for a school that had long been a
bastion of anti-commercialism. The school’s current leadership
largely hails from the College of Business Administration—a clear
sign that much has changed in the so-called university of, and for
the people. (That was how it was defined by its original
American-period charter created by the Philippine legislature.)
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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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Reactions to ‘Oreo’
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The June 6 edition of this column, titled “Oreo,”
managed to draw very strong reader reactions, some quite
lengthy—despite the fact that it dealt with US politics,...
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ENTHUSIASMS &
FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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For ‘healthy
globalization,’ globalize solidarity
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SEN. Ed Angara’s knowledge of the national
condition and of global affairs is so extensive. He is one of the
few politicians in our country whose statements are worth taking
seriously.
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Consumer
representative pushed for Meralco board
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WITH the cause of consumers very much in the
forefront of the current battle between the Lopez clan and the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS),...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Ja…Ja…Ja…Ja…Jamby
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When Sen. Jamby Madrigal stood up last week to interpellate Sen.
Bong Revilla on a movie industry bill that he was sponsoring, I
immediately wondered why she was interested in the industry.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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President Barack
Obama
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PRESUMPTIVE Democratic presidential nominee Barack
Obama, after gathering just enough delegates to anoint him the
principal contender for the presidential contest,...
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ANALYSIS
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Inflation crisis
undermines Asian governments
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KUALA LUMPUR: Spiraling prices for food and fuel have
claimed their first political casualties in Malaysia and Pakistan,
and threaten other Asian governments forced to impose subsidy cuts
even as elections loom.
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