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Sunday, September 07 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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‘Poverty in the
midst of plenty’ |
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In the recent Asia Forum attended by recipients of
the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awards and representatives of different
sectors of society, the discussion boiled down to why, in spite of
the region’s robust economic growth, Asians have remained poor.
The participants, including
former President Cory Aquino, the keynote speaker and an RM awardee
herself, painted an ugly picture of Asia’s rural areas where
people are starving due to grinding poverty.
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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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CENTER OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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E. coli and you
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PRO-LIFE advocates, if they were
intellectually honest and consistent, should be standing up for all
forms of life rather than just for human life.
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SUNDAY STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The wrong
stuff
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The public affairs’ side of
Philippine television has a fat rolodex that lists down the phone
numbers of professional bloviators—people who get their high by
spewing their “expert”views on TV and tiring the public with
their abuse of personal pronouns.
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ONE MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Women as weapons
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INCREASE in the number of female
suicide bombers should not be a cause for too much wonder. Both
sides in the current “war on terror” have found the value of
women as weapons of war.
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Are we all
Filipinos?
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“No matter what the Supreme
Court ultimately decides, the government will not sign the MOA . . .
in any form,” said Malacañang. (MOA refers to the Memorandum of
Agreement on Ancestral Domain between the government and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front).
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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The meaning of my
mission
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Acase like six-year-old Rosie
looking out from behind prison bars or 13 year old Josie prostituted
to foreign men in a sex bar in Angeles city is enough to drive a
normal person to anger, frustration and despair.
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ANALYSIS
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Thai PM holes up
at home as his emergency
rule declaration is ignored
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BANGKOK: Will the military
finally decide to make a move? Police and the military have not
backed the government’s declaration of emergency rule. But they
are also not actively siding with the protestors who are making it
impossible for Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Samak
Sundaravej to govern.
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LETTER
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Orissa Christians thanks The
Times
On behalf of all Orissa Christians with whom all Indian
Christians stand, I thank The Manila Times and Rene Bas for their
kindness in publishing the testimony of Fr Thomas Chellen (Page A5
September 5,
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