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Thursday, September 04. 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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The violence of bodyguards
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Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group Chairman Antonio Villar Jr’s
bodyguards were involved in at least two unpleasant incidents last
month. The episodes had nothing to do with smuggling, the crime his
special unit is mandated to confront and destroy.
Members of his security detail were accused of
mauling a businessman who later spent a week in a pricey hospital
for bruises and a temporary loss of memory. The roughing-up on
August 19 took place in a five-star Makati hotel where businessman
Simon Paz apparently insisted on using a restroom where Villar and a
companion were having a conversation.
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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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Mayor Lim’s ouster hurts
the opposition
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Many were stunned by the decision last week by former President
Joseph Estrada to remove Mayor Alfredo Lim of Manila as president of
the Puwersa ng Masa (Force of the Masses) party. The ouster was
unusual:
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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P63,525
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Don’t look now but if you do, that figure is the monthly salary of
the President of the Republic of the Philippines—before tax. To
most of our countrymen, that is a huge amount that can go a long way
to feed a family of five...
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BIZZ
FIZZ
By Rene Martel
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Juan getting what belongs to
Pedro!
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OUR recent column about a congressional inquiry into franchises
granted to private corporations has taken on a new intriguing twist
with an email we received from another lawmaker suggesting that some
of the corporate...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Derailed peace
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The peace talks are off. The peace process has been derailed. The
Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain won’t be signed. Both
sides are on war footing but no heavy artillery is encouraged.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Kim Gargar
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Putting a cork on brain
drain
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Agraduate of BS Biology working as bank teller; a BS Chemistry
graduate teaching P.E.; a physicist fresh from college selling
toothpaste and other products of a multi-level marketing company; a
mechanical engineer...
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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The war on red tape begins
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The World Bank, in a survey sometime this year, came out with the
rankings of 178 countries in terms of the ease with which official
business is done in their respective bureaucracies. Sad to say, the
Philippines fell way below the...
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