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Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Hope and virtue
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Most Filipinos like America—some really do love it. That is why in
survey after survey the USA is the most favorite destination for
Filipinos who want to find jobs abroad. Asked which other country
they would have liked to be citizens of, most Filipinos respond
“the United States.”
But the America in our minds is, yes, the land
of wealth, of superior economic and industrial achievement, the
glitter of Hollywood movies and TV box-office hits. But it is also
more than that. Above all, the America of the Filipino is that
dreamt-of-country that we wish the Philippines would be.
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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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FROM
THE SIDELINES
By Alfredo G. Rosario
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The master of sarcasm
in a new word war
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Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, who is known for his superlative
ironies against persons he had engaged in “word wars,” recently
found himself embroiled in a new controversy over his claim that the
assignment of Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino...
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Drug tests anyone?
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The drug problem continues to menace our society, weakening our
fiber and obstructing development goals. A key response is a system
of random, mandatory drug tests to ensure the drug users are
identified and helped in the...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Remaking America
begins
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Barack Obama’s inaugural address January 20 did not quite exceed,
or even match, the sonorous and soulful rhetoric and majestic
eloquence of Franklin Roosevelt’s or John F. Kennedy’s.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
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Cuban science
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Last weekend, I watched Michael Moore’s documentary “Sicko”
with a group of friends. What particularly struck me was the
contrast between the situation of healthcare in the US, the biggest
superpower in the world and in Cuba only 145 kilometers away.
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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A new world political
order, perhaps?
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Barack Hussein Obama 2nd, political superstar, has finally taken his
oath of office as 44th president of the mighty USA.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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Globe Asiatique makes bold
lifestyle statemen
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IT was barely 12 months ago when an acknowledged visionary in the
real estate industry made a bold declaration: “Xevera Bacolor is
going to change the way we live and will be the blueprint for the
future projects of our company.
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LETTER
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‘Agriculture is
carrying out bold reforms’
With regard to the banner story titled
“Lawmakers police budget,” which appeared in the December 29
issue of Manila Times, allow us to point out that...
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