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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Keeping the end of a bargain
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NEWS of President Arroyo’s dinner at a ritzy restaurant in New
York at a time when Filipinos are scrounging to make ends meet
betrays official insensitivity.
That a legislator from Leyte financed the lavish
feast for the presidential entourage at New York’s Le Cirque
restaurant only makes the whole episode obscene.
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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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POLICY
PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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They shift with the
tide
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NOT too long ago, when Cory Aquino was not fighting for her life but
fighting a corrupt administration, fighting yet again for truth,
justice and democracy, we heard so many unkind words from the people
who recently offered her family condolences when she died.
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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A call for
competitive and vibrant electric cooperative
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Who would have thought that the USA, the bastion of capitalism, has
a competitive and vibrant rural electric cooperative movement? The
seeds were sown in 1932 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke
at a venue where there was no electricity.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Remembering Ninoy and
Cory
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First of three parts
Among today’s Filipino journalists, few, if
any, can perhaps match the length...
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MEN
& EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Laiban Dam
Project: do we really need it
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When San Miguel Corp. announced in early February this year that it
has submitted an unsolicited proposal to the Manila Waterworks and
Sewerage System (MWSS) for the joint development of the Laiban Dam
Project in Tanay, Rizal, there was an immediate avalanche of
negative reactions to the project.
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“POLITICS
OF COURSE”
By Buddy Cunanan
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Teodoro breathes new
life into Lakas-CMD-Kampi
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The entry of Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro in the race for the
presidency has energized the 2010 political derby and given the
ruling Lakas-CMD-Kampi, a very much needed adrenalin shot.
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PERSPECTIVES
By Jose V. Romero Jr. Ph.D.
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Problems and
prospects of SME
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The large regionally diversified rural sector must be mobilized in
terms of the accelerated growth of both agricultural and
non-agricultural employment and output-creating activities over a
widely diversified area of the Philippines.
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LETTER
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‘Damn if you do,
damn if you don’t’
If you are invited to a dinner in a foreign
land, even if you are President of a
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