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Monday, May 26, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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The social bottom line
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THE standoff at the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) between the
Lopez-led management and state-run Government Service Insurance
Service (GSIS) will probably draw to a close this Tuesday, ending
what has been an acrimonious word war between the two insider groups
at the Philippines’ largest electricity distributor.
But after the dust settles, will Meralco
customers, representing more than half of the country’s
electricity market, be better off?
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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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Stop using media
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LATE Thursday I—and, as I later learned, many of my media
colleagues too—received a cell phone text message from a sender
obviously out to manipulate the media for a hidden agenda.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Heroically manning the
ramparts at Intramuros
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A FUNNY thing happened to Bambi Harper on her way to being appointed
head of the Intramuros Administration (IA)...
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Yano feeds hope in
a
decent RP military
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NEW Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano was reported
in a front page banner story by The Philippine Star to be quite a
human rights advocate. Great news like that...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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CARP extension in for
intense debate
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IN Barangay Mapangpang, Lupao, Nueva Ecija, most of the families of
farmers who were beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Program (CARP) now have bigger homes...
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FEATURE
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Quake orphans face uncertain future
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BEIJING: She held hands of her mum and dad on
the way to kindergarten, with no idea that she would soon lose her
parents to the 8.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Beichuan County in
China’s southwest Sichuan Province on May 12.
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