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Saturday, February 28, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Good report–with a
serious flaw
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The report on the P728-million
fertilizer-fund scam released on Monday by the Senate blue-ribbon
committee headed by Sen. Richard Gordon is a fairly good
report—but it contains a serious flaw: The call for the
resignation of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
Even Malacañang has welcomed the
report despite its not clearing President Gloria Arroyo, as critics
of the report accuse Sen. Gordon and his committee of having done.
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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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THE
OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Writers on the
Spanish civil war
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Pro-Republican writers have an edge over pro-Franco
writers in depicting an almost forgotten war that had been
overshadowed by subsequent wars. Writers who supported the
Republican cause were by no means...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Mar had been had
on NIA ‘bidding scandal’
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It looks like Sen. Mar Roxas had received a bum steer
when he swallowed hook, line and sinker charges of a new bidding
scandal, this time allegedly involving the National Irrigation
Administration (NIA).
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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PEZA’s new
thrusts
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Despite a global economic slowdown and a drastic
downswing in the country’s export earnings, Lilia de Lima, the
director general of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)
has an ambitious 10-5-5 target...
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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Please don’t
wish me ‘More power!’
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Some of you may find it odd, but I do wish that
friends and readers who keep on wishing me “More power!” in
their e-mail closings would stop doing so.
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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‘Slumdog
Millionaire’
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“SLUMDOG” was coined by script wright Simon
Beaufoy to describe people living in the legendary squalor of third
world metropolitan boomtowns and contrast it with the term
“Millionaire”...
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PROFILE OF THE HAMAS
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Islamist masters
of Gaza
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GAZA CITY: The Islamist Hamas movement, which sat
down for reconciliation talks with its secular rival Fatah on
Thursday, is a sworn enemy of the Jewish state and the vanguard of
the armed Palestinian struggle.
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