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Monday, May 05, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Time to revisit downstream oil law
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THE latest increase in prices at the pump shows for the umpteenth
time the insensitivity of oil companies to the average Filipino’s
plight. The announcement—if we could call it that—was made close
to midnight, by which time most of us were already at home, winding
down after a long hard week at work. Needless to say, many of us
hardly had the energy to get up from bed or our couches and drive
all the way up to the nearest station to gas up.
That is, provided we were watching the news on
TV, something the average Filipino doesn’t do on a Friday night.
For many of us, a better way to spend our time while winding down is
to catch up on late-night movies or series on TV. This means that
many of us suffered a rude awakening the morning after.
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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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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Pragmatism:
India-Iran, US-Nepal’s Maoists
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THE Times of India’s report had the headline: “US warms up to
Nepal Maoists.” Most neutral observers expected the stunning
victory less than a month ago of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoists)—which must be distinguished from the Communist Party of
Nepal (United Marxist-Leninist).
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Islamic message of peace
from French scholar
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A welcome visitor to our shores in recent days has been a renowned
French Muslim scholar Abdelwahab Meddeb who visited the Philippines
to discuss the French practice of Islam which promotes tolerance,
inter-confessional dialogue and peace.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Mar’s future and
medicine bill’s success or failure
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Sen. Mar Roxas has assumed such a high profile in the passage of the
“Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of
2008” that whether he likes it or not, his political future will
be affected by the law’s success or failure.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Betrayal of children
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AUSTRIAN Josef Fritzl horrified the world with the recent exposure
of his evil crimes of incest. Fritzl had detained his daughter
Elisabeth in the basement in their residential abode, raped her for
24 years, fathered seven children with his daughter...
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ANALYSIS
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Nuke talks hinge on Tehran’s
stopping uranium enrichment
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MOSCOW : Russia on Saturday said world powers
concerned about Iran’s nuclear program were asking Tehran only to
suspend uranium enrichment during a period of talks.
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FEATURE
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Smuggling a lifeline for remote
Lebanese villages bordering Syria
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AYHA, Lebanon : As night falls on remote
villages in eastern Lebanon that border Syria, streets and alleyways
bustle into life as a small army of pick-up trucks, mules and cars
are readied for action.
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