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Sunday, May 24, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Gross National Sex |
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Sex videos provided popular entertainment in the Betamax Age when
the bedroom calisthenics of a politician from the North and a rising
starlet circulated in Metro Manila, scandalized the pious and
entertained voyeurs.
At that time, sexually explicit movies called
“bombas” were a popular moviehouse fare. Divina Valencia and
Stella Suarez were the queens, pioneers who sired a new genre in
Filipino movies in a parody of the American original. The movies
mostly had a storyline but many were a patchwork of sex scenes. The
word “insertion” became popular before Filipino congressmen
appropriated the term for budgetary trickery.
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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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When mothers die
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SECRETARY Cerge Remonde’s paean to the Filipino mother has no
basis in fact.
The problems of teenage pregnancy, maternal
mortality and morbidity in the Philippines that an international
organization reported should be...
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Hopeless against the
oligarchs
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It was said with rage in the late 60s and the early 70s, a battle
cry of the First Quarter Storm. Chief Justice Reynato Puno recently
stated it matter-of-factly: The oligarchs rule.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Will WHO waive
diplomatic immunity of suspected rapist?
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WILL the World Health Organization (WHO) waive the diplomatic the
suspected child rapist?
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DURIAN
By Amina Rasul
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Social Market Economy
for the Philippines?
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SIXTY years ago on May 23, German Basic Law was promulgated, thus
giving birth to the German Federal Republic. It was drafted after
World War II, when the German economy, many cities and the
countryside were in ruins, and when...
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Doing a good job
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FOR Christians, the theme of the Mass for the Sixth Sunday after
Easter, which was last Sunday, was the Savior’s admonition,
“Love one another, as I love you. A man can have no greater
love/than to lay down his life for his friends.”
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ANALYSIS
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Britain announces climbdown on Gurkha settlement rights
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LONDON: Britain announced Thursday a climbdown over settlement
rights for Gurkha veterans, saying all of the Nepalese fighters who
have served at least four years can apply to live here.
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LETTER
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Applause for AFP’s 36th IB in Agusan Sur
A big round of applause for the 36th Infantry
Battalion for successfully defeating the New Peoples’ Army in
Agusan del Sur yesterday.
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