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Friday, March 07, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Poverty is the
problem
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A DILEMMA of development or a
failure of policy? Despite 28 quarters of successive growth, poverty
has worsened in the Philippines
According to the National
Statistical Coordination Board, the number of poor Filipino
households has increased and poverty overall has worsened during the
administration of President Arroyo.
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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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Binay’s
feat
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MEDIA could not help but take note of a hiccup in
last Friday’s Makati rally—some of the protesters allegedly
walked out when former presidents Corazon C. Aquino and Joseph E.
Estrada were called to the stage.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Hang him up a tree
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No cheating, please! When was the last time you heard
those words? Does it bring to mind the days of your youth when you
were struggling to pass your tests in elementary and high school?
Quickly, let’s recall them.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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The VP must do his
unique duties
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SOME hate the Lakas-Kampi crowd now in power so much.
They want to get rid of President Arroyo and Vice-President de
Castro through people power. They want to ignore the Constitution
and set up a new order.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine
Louise Viernes
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A doggone nation
with poly-ticks
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Truth: We have been infested by bloodsuckers for
ages. Even worse is that we breed them. It makes me think whether we
really merit our top spot in the animal kingdom, when some animals
are evidently more civilized than us.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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How to deal with a
crisis
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THE MAKINGS of a debate have cropped up along with
the scandals that have come to the fore after simmering in the
backburner for sometime. Or, shall we say, the skeletons are
rattling in their closets.
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Fraud and
corruption scar German economic elite
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FRANKFURT: A massive tax fraud scandal has
highlighted a deepening gulf between the general public and
Germany’s economic elite, which was already under scrutiny after a
series of high profile corruption scandals.
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LETTER
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The EcoWaste Coalition is one with our people’s
quest for truth and justice, for ethical leadership and governance,
and for the ecological conversion and development that our country
deeply needs.
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