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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Economic diplomacy during crises
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IT is understandable why Malacañang took pride in the international
publicity about Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev praising
President Gloria Arroyo for having done a great job of serving as
“the Third World’s spokesperson” in the 13th St. Petersburg
International Economic Forum (June 6 to 7). Indeed President Arroyo
stood out for being the only woman in a panel of four world leaders
at the opening session of the forum.
That piece of good publicity was, we hope, meant
to impress the general public in the Philippines but not to be taken
seriously by the members of the Cabinet’s economic cluster who are
not clueless about economic diplomacy.
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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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Judge’s pyrrhic
victory
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Judge Jorge Emmanuel Lorredo must still be celebrating. During a
hearing in his sala last week, Michael Defensor, the former
presidential chief of staff, formally withdrew the perjury charges
he had filed against NBN-ZTE witness Rodolfo Lozada Jr.
Lorredo has many reasons to celebrate.
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ENTHUSIASMS&FOREBODINGS
By Rene Q. Bas
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New evidence that
Pius XII helped Jews
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SOME people are now spending sleepless nights worrying because there
is a possibility that Earth and Venus would collide in 3.5 billion
years.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Give light, not
heat, to Cha-cha issue
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A president-elect should implement the program of government that he
or she advocated during the campaign. Any failure to do so is a
betrayal of those who voted for him or her because they believed in
the avowed program of government.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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The invisible
sufferers
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In our country’s narratives on the suffering, guess which sector
is often out of the picture despite that sector’s all-too-frequent
bout with life’s wretchedness and government neglect?
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ANALYSES
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Pakistan faces hardened Taliban foe in tribal belt
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army will face huge hurdles in its push to
crush the Taliban in tribal areas, where militants are entrenched in
a hostile terrain and slip easily across the Afghan frontier,
analysts say.
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Speculation emerges behind oil price spike
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NEW YORK: Speculators are back.
Oil prices have surged more than 50 percent
since the beginning of this year, jumping from $30 a barrel in the
first quarter to currently above $70.
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LETTER
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Martial law trial balloons?
Why are certain public officials and Senate
President Enrile making noises that...
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