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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Agrarian Reform
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The soaring rhetoric that flowed after the final passage of the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) in 1988 was understandable.
It was, after all, for a country that was still laredly
agricultural, possibly, the noblest piece of legislation in a
generation, the equivalent of the US Civil Rights Act.
The nobility of the words said on that hopeful
day in 1988 largely obscured a sad fact that no one dared mention:
That this great piece of social legislation had a fundamental flaw
that essentially watered-down its landmark and trailblazing spirit.
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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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Nuclear bill, why
the rush?
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Proponents of nuclear energy are wont to point out that Patrick
Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, now supports “harnessing atomic
power for peaceful purposes.” However, they conveniently omit the
fact that Moore and the environmental group he helped establish had
parted ways a long time ago.
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ENTHUSIASMS
&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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The Khaddafy
‘Isratine’ solution
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LIBYA’S leader Muammar Khaddafy has a radical but correct vision
of how the Palestine and Jewish question can be solved.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Break-out time for
Mr. Roque
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I have a small mixer for animal feeds, churning out some 50 bags a
day. I do not want to use the word laborious but it is the only way
to describe the process of mixing the ingredients (yellow corn,
soya, vitamins, copra etc.), putting...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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The entertaining
testimony of Mr. Paule
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Not everything was serious at the blue-ribbon hearing Monday of the
so-called P728-million fertilizer fund scam and for this, we have to
thank businessman Jaime “Tito Jim” Paule.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Deploying OFWs to
Iraq
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Jose Seneres is among the many hoping to get a job in Iraq.
He worked there once before in 2004. Since then,
Jose has wanted to go back.
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XINHUA COMMENTARY
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Premier Wen’s Europe tour underscores China’s confidence
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BEIJING: Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s Europe tour showcases the
country’s confidence in maintaining stable but relatively fast
economic growth and in its efforts to overcome the global financial
crisis together with the international community.
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LETTER
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Secretary of Justice
protests ‘Fixing of cases at DOJ ‘real’’ story
[This letter, dated 27 January 2009, and
published unedited and in full below, was addressed by Secretary
Raul Gonzalez to Mr. Dante F. M. Ang 2nd, Executive Editor,
President and CEO of The Manila Times.]
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