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Sunday, May 18, 2008 |
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EDITORIALS
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A national strategy for coping
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THE Presidential Assistant on Lifestyles announced yesterday that
the Cabinet was working on a plan called “National Strategy for
Coping” to help Filipinos meet rising costs and disappearing
commodities.
Pedro Pwedena told Malacañang newsmen that
President Gloria Arroyo ordered the plan “to help the public make
both ends meet” during “a time of temporary difficulties.”
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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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Happiness is giving
money away
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IT’S counterintuitive but three psychologists claim to have found
statistical and experimental evidence that spending money on other
people rather on oneself brings more happiness.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Gloria in excelsis
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A few weeks back, Mrs. Arroyo was in a playful mood. Today, she is
truly in high spirits. Even at the Palace, there are hardly signs it
was like a war zone early March. The corridors now reverberate with
brisk but confident steps.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Federalism and
self-determination
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The deep-seated problems and flaws of the Arroyo administration
convince me that the present governance is defective and cannot be
corrected under the prevailing system.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Media and information
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IT has been a long time since congressional speeches like “Give me
liberty, or give me death” and broadsides like “The Crisis”
(These are the times that try men’s souls) could inflame people
and lead them to a revolution that created the United States of
America.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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What you do to them
you do to me
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A group of German visitors went with the staff of Preda Foundation
May 5 and 6 to visit the children at the Reception and Action Center
and the Manila Youth Reception Center (MYRC) to bring snacks and
drinks and see the condition of the children detained as prisoners.
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ANALYSIS
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Greece’s ‘strawberry slaves’ exposed
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NEA MANOLADA, Greece: Nea Manolada was a quiet village in southern
Greece unknown to many until a strike by “strawberry slaves”
exposed the dark underbelly of one of the country’s key economic
sectors.
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