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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Is Satan in power among our elite?
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The horrible murder of Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez has made many
wonder if those who say that something Satanic is now in control of
Philippine society are right.
Her murder was by a small band of professional
killers allegedly in the pay of a wealthy businessman, her
father-in-law, who allegedly ordered the killers to deal with Ruby
Rose the way they had also dealt with other targets for liquidation
under this businessman’s orders. And the disposition of her body
was in the US mafia gang style celebrated in movies and detective
novels—she was put in wet cement in a sealed drum that was then
dropped with weights into the sea.
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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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POLICY
PEEK
By Ernesto F. Herrera
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The case of the mysteriously vanishing load
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TODAY is the first hearing of Senate committees on Trade and
Industry and Public Services on the issue of pre-paid loads of
cellular phones that always seem to vanish.
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MEN
& EVENTS
By Alito L. Malinao
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Booboos in DepEd
textbooks:
Who are to blame?
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When I first read the errors cited by Antonio Calipjo-Go in the
textbook, English for You and Me, I thought it was just some sort of
a joke. After all, you can’t help being amused after reading the
“Carabao English” found in the book.
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EAST
WEST
By Julius F. Fortuna
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Good riddance to
anti-communist agency
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Whatever critics say about President GMA on other aspects of
governance, something positive could be said about her recent
issuances. This is the matter of her abolishing an anti-communist
agency that should properly be described as a relic of the Cold War.
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MISSION
IMPOSSIBLE
By Marit Stinus-Remonde
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Bad science textbook
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If we protect our reproductive system, we shall be safe from
illness.”
This is a quote from “The Wonderful World of
Science” to be used by Grade 5 pupils in a private Catholic school
in Cebu City.
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Of heroes and good samaritans on World Blood Donor Day
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(Message delivered on June 15, 2009, in the drive of the Tripartite
Organization [the PNRC, the Department of Health and the Philippine
Blood Coordinating Council] for World Blood Donor Day at the
Elizabeth Hotel, Baguio City.)
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ANALYSIS
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What could Netanyahu’s conditional okay to Palestinian statehood mean
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JERUSALEM : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done what
many analysts thought he would never do: voicing support for the
establishment of a Palestinian state, although with conditions.
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