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Saturday, June 20, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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A center of excellence and model for others—like Rizal
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The Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), the first Philippine
institution of higher learning to have a
Filipino name and the first to be funded solely by a municipal
government, deserves its reputation as center of excellence and as
the home of several centers of excellence.
Something more than nationalist fervor is behind
the Filipino name. The university authorities point to the Tagalog
term pantas—from which pamantasan is derived—which connotes
wisdom. They proclaim the PLM’s principal goal to be the
achievement of wisdom, the capacity for total understanding, not
merely the accumulation of knowledge and professional expertise. In
short, what PLM seeks to offer to society are graduates who are both
excellent professionals in their fields and disciplines and men of
wisdom—pantas.
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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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THE
OTHER VIEW
By Elmer A. Ordoñez
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Rain in June
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As soon as May lapses into the month of June comes the rain.Of
course we had rain in the last week or so in May with even a threat
of typhoon; hence, the flowers we celebrated last month and the
thick foliage that now cover our little...
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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No dance time at
SONA
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I hate to be a killjoy but the joint session of Congress on July 27
will not involve the convening of a Constituent Assembly. Then-
Speaker Manuel Villar Jr. did the unexpected and read the
transmittal of then President Erap’s impeachment to...
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VIRTUAL
REALITY
By Tony Lopez
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Con-Ass will be
declared constitutional
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There is so much hullabaloo about the House of Representatives
converting itself into a Constitutional Assembly to consider
amendments to the Constitution.
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ENGLISH
PLAIN & SIMPLE
By Jose A. Carillo
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It’s the helping verb
that takes the tense
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In this column last week, I explained to a senior PR executive why I
used the singular verb form “has” for the subject “none” in
this sentence construction of mine: “I hope none of you still has
a problem choosing between “bring” and...
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NATURE
FOR LIFE
By Anabelle E. Plantilla
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The birds of Angat
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Two weekends ago, we treated our visitors from BirdLife
International to a day of bird watching in Angat Watershed. Located
in Norzagaray, Bulacan, and covering more than 90,000 hectares, the
Angat Watershed is the supplier of...
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DOUBLE
TAKE
By Eric F. Mallonga
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Lessons from a
senator’s perversion
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THE controversy stoked by the scathing Senate privileged speech
delivered by normally invisible actor Bong Revilla has mercifully
shown signs of extreme fatigue.
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How to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace
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The outlines of the settlement are obvious
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President Barack Obama’s seminal address in Cairo marked a turning
point in America’s relations with the Muslim world. His message
was clear and incontrovertible: It is issues of politics and policy,
not a clash of values that...
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