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Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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A ploy for martial law?
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THE Supreme Court junked the two petitions filed by lawyers Oliver
Lozano and Evangeline Lozano-Endriano and businessman Louis Biraogo
to nullify, for being unconstitutional, House Resolution 1109. The
justices could not have taken any other decision.
As the ruling, written by Chief Justice Reynato
Puno himself, explains it succinctly, (1) HR 1109 contains nothing
“justiciable” and (2) the petitioners had no legal standing to
file their suits.
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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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The Blas F. Ople
Policy Center and abused OFWs
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In the history of illegal recruitment, nothing can be more
scandalous, more fraudulent and more nauseating than the recent case
of the 137 bus drivers recruited for purportedly high-paying jobs in
Dubai.
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HERE
I STAND
By Geronimo L. Sy
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Who’s afraid of
swine flu?
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Finally, the pigs strike back. Thousands of years domesticated,
serving as a primary source of protein and of all-around delicacies
from ears, cheeks to tails, pigs are a long-suffering lot. With
swine flu cases numbering at least 25,000 worldwide, health
officials are calling it a pandemic.
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Immigration policy
as an economic stimulus
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When businessmen and investors visit the Philippines, the first
person they see and meet is not their business partner or associate.
Nor their banker.
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PROMETHEUS
BOUND
By Jose Leon A. Dulce
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There’s no substitute for
the real thing
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During the Ayala rally last week against the House of
Representatives’ Con-Ass resolution, the Computer Professionals
Union (CPU) organized a cell phone-to-Twitter link for texters to be
able to update and participate in the protest event.
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DEVELOPMENT
DIALOGUE
By Nora O. Gamolo
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Resolving poverty,
social ills
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Filipinos are trumping all apparent attempts to prevent the holding
of the May 2010 elections, through Charter change or other means.
Even the legal Left is gearing to field four senatorial candidates
through Makabayan, a regular political party its stalwarts have just
set up.
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OPEN
NOTEBOOK
By Random Jottings
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StarTek flexes its
CSR muscles
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IT may be a relatively new entrant to the Philippine business
process outsourcing (BPO) industry, but since its formal opening by
President Gloria Arroyo in January this year, StarTek has wasted
little time in establishing its corporate social responsibility
(CSR) credentials.
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LETTER
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War will not achieve peace
Scores of lawless elements of the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) belonging to the renegade force of Kumander
Umbra Kato were killed in a land-and-air
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