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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Lingering anarchy
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TWO pesos!
Yes, you read the gasoline pump meter right when
you dropped by your neighborhood station to fill ‘er up on your
way to work yesterday morning.
In one fell swoop, the country’s Big Three oil
companies— and we suspect the little firms will not be far
behind—took back the measly 25-centavo rollbacks they had been
implementing seemingly reluctantly for weeks.
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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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Not-so-invisible hand
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THE Washington Times editorial last Sunday, which drew an
unflattering picture of Gloria Arroyo on the eve of her State of the
Nation Address and visit to the American capital, was as much an
attack on US President Barack Obama as it was a smack on the
Philippine president.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The last nine months
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For the next nine months, forget the grand investment plans crafted
by the government technocrats. They would merely drain whatever
limited investment funds the state has. They are about
long-gestating projects; no fruits within the short term. They would
favor cronies and Big Business.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Much ado about
nothing
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So many accusatory words have been said and printed about the
conversion of the joint session of the Fourteenth Congress into a
constituent assembly to amend the Constitution.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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A transitional
revolutionary council
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“That the governments existing at present ought to be abolished,
so that liberty, equality, and fraternity should no longer be empty
words but become living realities, and that all forms of government
as yet tried have only been so many...
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ANALYSIS
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US autumn deadline for Iran not
coincidental
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JERUSALEM: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has given Iran a
deadline until fall to respond positively to the request of
President Barack Obama to enter negotiations over its nuclear
program.
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ANALYSIS
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Pakistan snarls at ‘detrimental’ Indian
nuclear submarine but analysts see no new arms race
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hit out at India on Tuesday, branding its first
nuclear-powered submarine “detrimental” to regional peace and
vowing to take “appropriate steps” to maintain a “strategic
balance.”
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LETTER
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Attack on Melissa
This is a reaction to Mr. Dan Mariano’s column
on July 27, “Give bite to human rights bark,” saying that the
military officials have denied the involvement of...
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