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Monday, September 29, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Plan for a long storm
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THE pattern of US government intervention in its financial markets
in a bid to save big-name private institutions from collapse has
placed the world’s freest economy in a quandary.
Over the past few months, Washington helped
bankroll the takeover, if not actually assumed the ownership of some
of the world’s financial behemoths, putting to shame even a rabid
nationalist like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
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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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In March, Ed Mañalac landed on the front page of a leading Manila
daily. The former president of Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC),
according to the paper’s “exclusive” report, was supposed to
give testimony on the then-raging controversy over the National
Broadband Network project.
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OPEN NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Former NTC chief’s
Piltel holdings questioned
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LIKE a pit-bull that has a hold of its victim and just won’t let
go, the congressional inquiry into franchises obtained on the
telecommunications front keeps growling around and coming up with
ever new evidence of alleged misconduct.
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BIZZ FIZZ
By Rene Martel
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Filipinos cutting down on mobile
phone use
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AT the undisputed texting capital of the world, the Philippines is
always a fascinating reservoir of trends in this global phenomenon
where one’s fingers do all the talking.
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ENTHUSIASMS&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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God bless America–and free
markets
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The current financial and stock-market crises in the USA, Europe and
rich countries in other parts of the world have made communist and
socialist writers talk about the coming death of capitalism and the
free market.
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DOUBLE TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Inviting Angelina
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ANGELINA Jolie, Ambassador of Goodwill for the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees, is being requested by the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) to now go on an observation tour of all the
refugee shelters set up in Mindanao...
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INSIDECONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Civility taking a beating at
the Senate
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ON Wednesday, I thought Sen. Jamby Madrigal would do the Senate a
rare favor by keeping her trap shut. Her privileged speech was the
first item on the agenda but she was nowhere when the session
started.
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LETTER
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Mr. Lopez’s lost Samsonite bags
About Mr. Tony Lopez’s column on the
three-piece Samsonite travel bags (September 23, 2008):
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