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Sunday, May 05, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Redrawing the nation
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FEDERALISM will redistribute power and equalize growth in the
country; it will make for a stronger Philippines, says Sen. Aquilino
Pimentel, principal author of Senate Resolution No. 10. A federal
form of government will divide the country and create 11 fiefdoms,
warns Sen. Joker Arroyo. So begins the debate on federalism, a
system popular in many continents but a question mark in these 7,000
islands.
The debate is useful so that we, the blind men,
can figure out what this strange animal looks like. The system must
be fine because it works well in countries like the United States.
On the other hand, it could be, in the case of Italy, a
destabilizing force.
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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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CENTER
OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Chaos
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EDWARD LORENZ’s singular contribution to science was his theory of
chaos. He was not the first to discover chaotic
phenomena.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Land Bank’s
half-truths, Pico’s dissembling
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The peasantry is at a loss on how to react to the barrage of recent
press statements from the Land Bank of the Philippines. Do we just
keep our peace? Or react angrily and burn effigies of Gilda Pico,
the LBP president, after a protest at the bank headquarters?
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Quiet in the Senate
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THERE’S a bumper crop of bad news—even dire—but like the rest
of the population, the opposition is not too happy about it. These
bad news can’t all be blamed on President Gloria Arroyo.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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The sexual
enslavement of children
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Josef Fritzl, 73, imprisoned his own daughter and abused her as a
sex slave for 24 years and she gave birth in the cellar dungeon to
seven children. One died and he incinerated it in a furnace.
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‘The best form of flattery’
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Impersonation, impression, mimicry. Whatever you
call it, it is one of the most popular forms of comedy regularly
seen in the entertainment capitals of the world. Actors doing
impressions are a regular act in comedy clubs, stage, radio and TV
around the world.
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