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Monday, June 23, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Risking a throwback
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THE unabated rise in the price of
oil requires that the Philippines seriously reconsider its current
demand for the imported commodity.
Up to this point, the country has
been acting as if it had deep pockets to finance its present buying
levels. Witness here the robust domestic sales of gas-guzzlers like
sports utility vehicles (SUVs) and the surfeit of near-empty public
utility vehicles plying—more like clogging—Metro Manila’s
streets.
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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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Bullying the
judiciary
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Court of Appeals (CA) Associate Justice Vicente Roxas must be
feeling the heat of a high-profile media blitz against him
apparently launched by the camp of Government Service Insurance
System (GSIS) President Winston Garcia.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Integrating human
rights
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FIFTEEN years have passed since I became an
investigating prosecutor of the Presidential Committee on Human
Rights (PCHR) under former Justice Secretary Teofisto Guingona. In
that capacity,...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Migz Zubiri talks
about his first year as senator
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Sen. Migz Zubiri goes about his duties as senator as
if there is no Sword of Damocles hanging over his head—the protest
filed by Koko Pimentel against his proclamation as 12th senator in
the May 2007 election. ...
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Jellyfish
outbreaks show nature is out of sync
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PARIS : The dramatic proliferation of jellyfish in
oceans around the world, driven by overfishing and climate change,
is a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter, warn experts.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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China to rebuild
century-old Catholic seminary
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BAILU TOWN, Sichuan: China will rebuild a
100-year-old Catholic seminary that was destroyed in the powerful
earthquake in May on its original site in the southwestern Sichuan
province.
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