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Thursday, July 16, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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An important meeting
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President Gloria Arroyo has made dispensable trips as well as
travels that are important to the national interest. She has
attended conferences that could have been minded by her ambassadors
and meetings that required her presence. Her journey to Washington,
D.C., on July 30 for a talk with President Barrack Obama advances
the national good and strengthens ties with an important ally.
It is an important meeting for the Philippines
and for the Filipinos. For the American president, it is a good
occasion to size her up, to appreciate her character, philosophy and
values, and possibly to plumb into her plans and her place before
and after the 2010 presidential race.
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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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‘Scorched-earth’
vs. the Abu Sayyaf
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I have always favored, with apologies to the doves of the Arroyo
administration, a total war against the Abu Sayyaf in my belief that
peace in the group’s terrorized villages of Mindanao can be
achieved only in war.
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Vanishing loads
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This term has a ring of magic to it—vanishing loads, a sense of
the disappearing into thin air, something so dear to all Filipinos,
our load credits in our ever present cell phones. Who hasn’t
experienced or shared stories on cell phone horrors?
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Aggravating a
humanitarian crisis
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People familiar with Mindanao’s dynamics in the last four decades
are starting to feel uneasy again with the latest trends observed in
this war-weary island, all happening within the last two weeks.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D.
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Science for the
people (4): Scientific and mass culture
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Newspapers early this week contained stories about the Piston
transport strike, high oil prices and the supposed rollback of the
big oil companies. Alongside these items were numbers about the
recession and the A(H1N1) pandemic.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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New technical strides at
NAIA
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FREQUENT flyers may not be aware that it is so but the Manila
International Airport Authority (MIAA) can boast that, in certain
important aspects, key airports under its jurisdiction are on the
same technical level as some of its more famous counterparts in the
region.
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FEATURE
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Maoists thrive as India’s public enemy No. 1
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NEW DELHI: In the past five years, Maoist rebels have emerged as the
most potent threat to India’s internal stability and left the
authorities groping for a response to their increasingly audacious
attacks.
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LETTER
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ASG does not deserve amnesty
Mission accomplished for the Armed Forces of the
Philippines, Philippine...
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