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Saturday, May 24, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Don’t restore capital punishment
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No to the death penalty! We join Commission on Human Rights Chair
Leila de Lima in opposing legislators who are calling to reinstate
capital punishment in our criminal justice system.
The pro-death-penalty lawmakers are mostly using
the utilitarian argument of deterrence. They say that the grim
prospect of being strapped to the electric chair or getting a lethal
injection will make murderers and homicidal killers think twice
about killing somebody. The statistical support they give their
argument does not wash when they say there were less murders and
homicides when the death penalty was in our statute books.
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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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THE
OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Homage to Ka Bel
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I first saw him at dusk with a group of armed men coming up to the
hut where I was waiting with my guide in Central Luzon in 1985. It
was the dry season but the paddies were green with growing palay,
thanks to irrigation managed by farmers tilling fields abandoned by
absentee landlords.
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ABOVE
ALL THINGS
By Ramon Mabutas Jr.
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The tragedy of a fake
marriage
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Query: Candro and I met and became sweethearts seven years
ago. We planned to get married and thereby applied for a marriage
license three years later.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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A recipe for social
unrest
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It should be obvious by now the Philippines has two major
problems—food and fuel, including electricity.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Grammar curiosities and crudities–IV
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We will now dissect the last two of the six grammar curiosities and
crudities that I asked readers to fix three columns ago to test
their own English proficiency...
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LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY MATTER(S)
By Atty. Emmanuel Q. Fernando
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The corruption of
Christ’s scriptural message
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In my article entitled “The Scriptural Solution to Political
Corruption” (April 5, 2008), I argued that the Catholic Bishop’s
Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) pastoral message deviated
from the requirements of the Scriptures with regard to the
Church’s earthly mission.
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ANALYSIS
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Israel-Syria peace could defuse major conflicts
in the Middle East
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JERUSALEM: Peace between Israel and Syria could
defuse some of the most explosive conflicts in the Middle East and
weaken Iran’s growing influence there, Israeli analysts say.
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