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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Villar’s spoilsport tournament
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Does Senate President Manuel Villar have competent and knowledgeable
advisers or not?
A politician who puts himself in the ring for
the highest office of the land enters a zone where all his actions
and decisions must bear the weight of scrutiny. The media, the
public and his rivals for the presidency will look at everything he
does from every angle.
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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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What was that all
about?
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LAKE ORION, Michigan: In the aftermath of last week’s exchange of
harsh words between the Arroyo administration and the Lopez business
empire over Meralco, observers—including the Filipino community in
this Midwestern American state—find themselves asking: Now what
was that all about?
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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ZTE lament and addressing farming concerns
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Just when one thought that the NBN-ZTE issue was deservedly dead and
buried along comes Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair Sen. Allan
Peter Cayetano who, rather than displaying the much needed political
withdrawal symptoms, appears determined to continue mainlining on
the issue.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Tragedy of OFWs’
maltreatment
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News that our OFWs have again been maltreated by the Department of
Labor’s Overseas Workers’ Welfare Administration (OWWA) gave me
a pain in the chest. After all I am a former OFW myself.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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A multi-tasking
Senate
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There was this man who was devoting a lot of time to his “No. 2”
but without neglecting his primary duties to his “No. 1”
“That’s multi-tasking!” he bragged.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Wolf’s lair
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STUMBLING over an international obituary just last week, the name
“Baron Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager” never struck a chord of
recognition except for the short acclamation describing him...
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Minority Rights, Rule
of Law and Federalism
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I was invited to speak on minority rights at a conference organized
by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (New Delhi) on “Radical Islam
and Democracy: Indian and Southeast Asian Experiences” on May 6.
Let me share my troubled thoughts with you.
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