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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Tragi-comic Metro Manila garbage dump problem
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Like most other things Philippine, Metro Manila’s garbage dumpsite
problem should be treated as comedy. But we can’t because they are
fraught with tragic consequences and memories of actual tragedies.
With a population of about 12 million, the
largest urban center of the country is Metro Manila. In recent years
four dumpsites—Smokey Mountain, Carmona, Payatas and San
Mateo—served the metropolis (some say megalopolis) until they
closed down one by one.
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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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Hopeful beginning
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It is, as an American journalist put it, his country’s equivalent
of a royal coronation or a papal investiture. However, yesterday’s
swearing in of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United
States of America was more than that.
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ENTHUSIASMS&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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My friend Lang-Ma
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Malang’s paintings—along with those of Arturo Luz, Hernando
Ocampo, Peping Joya, the Mabini art of Salvador Cabrera (Bencab’s
elder bro-ther), Ang Kiu Kok, Hugo Yon-zon, Veronica Lim Yu, Anita
Magsaysay Ho and BenCab—were the first to seize my imagination as
a young man in the 60s decided on appreciating art.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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A gift of more life
and a National Artist award
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For the young and truly gifted, the graveyard pit of a newspaper is
a place for deep reflection. Do I stay in this place for a lifetime?
Or, do I spread my proverbial wings and find out where will they
take me?
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Looking back and
forward
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The Philippines has been suffering from a chronic economic crisis
for the past eighth years and the global economic meltdown will only
make it worse for the country, says the think-tank IBON Foundation.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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A Senate without
Miriam
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The Senate would definitely be a less cerebral—and less
color-ful—chamber should Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago retire from
politics when her current term at the Senate ends on June 30, 2010.
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LETTER
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BSP clarifies points in
Times inflation editorial
This refers to the editorial entitled “BSP
must do better in containing inflation” which appeared in the 10
January 2009 issue of The Manila Times.
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