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Sunday, March 29, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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The vice presidentiables |
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We admire young politicians who show great promise but have modest
ambitions. One of them is Sen. Francis Pangilinan, an opposition
leader belonging to the Liberal Party who announced on Wednesday
that he will seek the vice presidency in 2010.
Pangilinan, who was elected as an independent in
the 2007 Senate races, has a better record as legislator than many
of the other politicians hungering to become president. A
declaration for the presidency would not surprise many Filipinos.
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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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CENTER
oF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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The C4 Rice project
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THE International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños,
Laguna announced a path-breaking research project that aims to
develop—invent is more apt—a rice variety that needs less water
and fertilizer but yields 50-percent more grain than the best
present-day varieties.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Dark horses galore
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The 2010 battle for the presidency used to be the exclusive club of
the Group of Eight (G-8), or the eight major presidential wannabes:
the vice president, five senators, a former president and the
current head of the MMDA.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Cameras to expose sex
hotels
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he biggest tourism trade fair in the world is held in Berlin every
year. I attended that to meet the leaders of the tourist industry
and discuss the dangers and damage that sex tourism brings to
hundreds of thousands of children and...
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Women’s
representation, beyond numbers (2)
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Alas, the law and its implementation are two separate realities, as
Filipinos know full well.
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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A blind watchmaker
(2)
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Darwinism or the theory of evolution by natural selection is one of
the developments of the Enlightenment, which sought to refute
religion in favor of the scientific me-thod, physics over
metaphysics. Pope Benedict XVI, writing as Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger,
in Truth and Tolerance, said:
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ANALYSIS
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Can Pakistan deliver US strategy demands?
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s new role, given by US President Obama, as
the center of the fight against al-Qaeda will lead to more extremist
violence and pose huge challenges to a government with a doubtful
ability to deliver, analysts say.
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ANALYSIS
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Hate blazes in multifaith India’s polls
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NEW DELHI: A Muslim-baiting speech ahead of India’s elections next
month has opened the door to a divisive campaign exploiting the
country’s religious fault lines.
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