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Friday, September 26, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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The PNP badge needs
polishing
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Deputy Director General Jesus
Verzosa’s assumption as new chief the Philippine National Police
on September 27 raises new hopes and expectations for urgent reforms
in the PNP.
He replaces Director General
Avelino Razon Jr. who leaves a mixed record in the police
organization. Razon takes pride in his “Mamang Pulis” program as
his greatest legacy to public service after serving for 12 months as
national chief. Camp Crame watchers, however, say the program served
the public image of the PNP but not the core needs of the
120,000-plus police officers and law and order in the country.
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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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‘Filipino
First’ screwing
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Deputy Director General Jesus Verzosa’s assumption
as new chief the Philippine National Police on September 27 raises
new hopes and expectations for urgent reforms in the PNP.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Smart Kotong
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Eminent scholars and government functionaries are
put–ting their heads together to draw battle plans to eradicate
graft and corruption. The government has been losing billions of
pesos every year because of graft and corruption, so they look for
ways to outsmart the thieves.
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ENTHUSIASMS
& FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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US must give the
$700B bailout quick
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What mainly the Democrats and same-minded Republicans
who want to delay the law for the $700-billion bailout don’t seem
to understand is that more than 50 percent of ordinary Americans
will be seriously affected...
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YOUTHOPIA
by Marylaine
Louise Viernes
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Secrets trapped in
the MIRRORS
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I’ve always been fascinated by mirrors. As a child, I would make
faces in front of them, awestruck with how they can perfectly
emulate my every move. There was even a time when my friends...
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Hope for Pagasa
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Fresh from all the roughing up he got from Sulpicio
Lines officials in the probe of the sinking of the ill-fated ship
Princess of the Stars, Chief Weatherman Dr. Prisco Nilo joined
colleagues and ordinary folk in Iba,...
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AMBIENT
VOICES
by MA. ISABEL ONGPIN
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US elections (2)
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: The US presidential campaign
this week was reduced to a sideshow. The nation’s attention was
diverted to the $700-billion price tag that the Bush Administration...
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