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Friday, September 05 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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The trees in
Intramuros
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TREES are replaceable, but many may not be cut down except for
extremely important reasons. The rare varieties are spared, and so
are those that have survived age. Gnarled ones that have witnessed
history are virtually sacred. For trees—as well as for national
shrines and hallowed grounds—there are undying rules for care and
preservation.
Maria Ana “Bambi” Harper, head of the
Intramuros Administration, has been charged by the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources’ Metro Manila regional office
with cutting down or failing to ball eight narra and two mahogany
trees for the landscaping of the park facing the Manila Cathedral in
Intramuros. The DENR allowed the Administration to cut down 10
“prime” trees and 17 “non-prime” for its development
project.
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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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IRR torpedoes RA 9504’s
laudable objectives
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When President Gloria Arroyo signed Republic Act 9504 into law less
than three months ago, the government announced that it was giving
immediate financial relief to low-income workers.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Leave it alone
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Certain things are important to us. But, due to ignorance perhaps,
we take them for granted or we rush to remove them with extreme
prejudice—we wipe them off, we push them away, or we drain them
out.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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Indian priest
recounts his and a raped nun’s ordeal
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My column “Muslim-Hindu Christian solidarity” elicited many
responses. Derrick da Costa (derrickdcosta@yahoo.com) says what is
happening in India’s Orissa state is really ethnic cleansing. He
sent me a Catholic News Service report about how a priest and nun
were treated physically and morally abused by Hindu mobs.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine
Louise Viernes
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Banned Wagon
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I remember five years ago, when I was 16, I sought advice from
people on which course to take in college. Everyone was telling me
to take up Nursing since it was a very high-paying job.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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De la Costa on
Mindanao
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Still disturbed by the concept of
ancestral domain on which the recent Memorandum of Agreement was
premised and failed, I have looked up historical sources.
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COMMENTARY
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Why are we where we are now?
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The answer to this burning question was
summarized in the 1997 Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Politics
by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines which
said...
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ANALYSIS
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Will McCain’s shift to
right alienate the
center?
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota: Republican presidential
hopeful John McCain has finally energized his base with the pick of
a socially conservative ticket mate, but the question remains
whether his shift to the right has lost him the center.
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