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Thursday, May 22, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Extend CARP but
amend CARL first
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Some of the most beautiful
traditional Chinese scroll paintings are of carp in clear stream or
lily-pond
water. To Philippine landlords and farmland owners, however, CARP is
a detestable fish, for it stands for Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program.
A related acronym is CARL, the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law under which CARP came to life with
a fixed time for its demise, June 1998.
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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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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Manny sees
Noli as 2010 rival
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For a while, we thought that it would be a battle
between Senate President Manny Villar and Sen. Mar Roxas in the
presidential elections of 2010. But it seems that Manny now sees it
another way after meeting his leaders.
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Debt trap
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A debt trap is like a mouse trap—once caught in it,
one hardly gets out if at all. At least a mouse trap only catches
mice. For people in a debt trap, it can be crippling like a terminal
illness.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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San Miguel returns
to basic–beer
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In the first quarter of 2008, both San Miguel
Brewery, Inc. and its mother company, San Miguel Corp. registered
spectacular gains.
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ANALYSIS
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Obama should give
Hillary Clinton a graceful exit
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WASHINGTON: Though short of declaring victory in the
Democratic presidential nomination race, US Senator Barack Obama of
Illinois is getting closer to the ultimate prize each day.
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ANALYSIS
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India govt
cornered as national poll countdown begins
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NEW DELHI: As the countdown begins to national polls
next year, India’s coalition government faces rising inflation,
internal security threats and a stalled civil nuclear pact with the
US, say analysts.
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Taiwan and the World Health Association
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Cooperation for
global health should trump international politics
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Freedom House has come out with a strong call to the
World Health Organization to allow Taiwanese journalists to cover
the organization’s annual assembly in Geneva that began May 19 and
will end on May 24.
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LETTER
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Let Meralco defend
itself, ABS-CBN
This pertains to the raging row between GSIS and Meralco which
boils down to the issue of a power utiltity’s
accountability to its captive market which absorbs all the cost of
its operation with the guarantee of profits.
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