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Monday, March 03, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Buy some stability
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PRICES of oil and other commodities in the world market have resumed
their climb to fresh records, threatening to slow down the
Philippine economy this year and even stoke political unrest.
The National Economic and Development Authority
(NEDA) last week said it is slashing its growth forecast for the
first quarter to six percent from an original estimate of 7 percent.
It cited a bearish outlook for manufacturing and agriculture.
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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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Wanted: Independent
prosecutor
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As expected, police and organizers of last Friday’s protest
rally in Makati gave conflicting estimates of the crowd size. The
authorities, as if to mock the protester leaders’ one-million
target...
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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ZTE and CBCP bridge historical divide
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By a miraculous quirk of fate the controversy that China-based ZTE
Corp. is currently engulfed in has ensured that the forces of
communism and ecumenism have finally found common ground—something
that even divine intervention has hitherto failed to achieve.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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General’s promotion
got Jamby’s goat
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If all oppositionists are as vigilant as Sen. Jamby Madrigal, then
they are in deep trouble. Madrigal, the minority leader at the
Commission on Appointments (CA), had vowed to block the promotion of
B/Gen. Nestor Sadiarin.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Rehabilitating the
presidency
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The constitutionalist Jesuit priest, Fr. Joaquin Bernas, in his
Inquirer column some days ago wrote about rehabilitating the Arroyo
presidency.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Essence of democracy
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AT the core of democracy is the basic principle that majority rules.
That is as it should be: we elect our leaders, and each member of
the body politic is bound to accept the results; were it otherwise,
chaos and institutional paralysis would ensue.
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AN APPRECIATION
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William F. Buckley Jr., conservative icon
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William F. Buckley Jr. was the one who attracted
me to conservatism. He died on February 27. He was an author,
journalist and TV host. I have read all his light-hearted novel
Blackford Oakes espionage novels, the hilarious “Who’s on
First” and most of his political writings.
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