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Monday, March 17, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Making good use of BSP’s cooperation
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AFTER about a year of prodding by financial market players, the
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) finally succumbed to calls to
limit access to a facility meant to temper inflation.
Its policy-making Monetary Board decided last
Thursday to close some of the windows of its special deposit account
(SDA), which has been competing for funds with the national
government, preventing it from securing short-term borrowings during
its fortnightly auctions of Treasury bills.
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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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How do you solve a
problem like Jamby?
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That is the question confronting the senators and congressmen who
are members of the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA).
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Challenge for heritage icon Bambi Harper
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IN an extraordinary twist of fate, Bambi Harper—the articulate and
elegant but fiery defender of the cultural legacy of the Philippines
who took on long standing Intramuros Administration administrator
Butch Ferrer...
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Our bishops’
salvation
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CATHOLIC bishops have traditionally been looked upon as the source
of our people’s moral strength, their ascendancy and influence
overtly peaking at the time of the Marcos dictatorship.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Hail, comrade GMA!
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SOME Gloria watchers are seeing a new vision. They see it because of
her inexplicable actuations relative to the People’s Republic of
China.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Terror in the Senate
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MADRIGAL is supposed to come from a buena familia. Yet, she spews
such words as bastos and gago in both plenary and committee
hearings.
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Dalai Lama–a thorn in China’s side
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DHARAMSHALA, India: Tibet’s spiritual leader and symbol of hope
for his homeland, the Dalai Lama, has been a thorn in China’s side
ever since he fled in 1959 after a failed uprising against
Beijing’s rule.
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