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Friday, September 11, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Rural sixth-graders best city counterparts in NAT
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News that these last three years, the sixth graders of rural-area
schools got higher National Achievement Test (NAT) scores than their
city-school counterparts should buoy up our hopes. It is a sign that
despite the corruption and deficiencies of the government the
neglected rural areas are not as doomed to failure and unrelieved
poverty as the most pessimistic observers say they are.
(Why talk about government? Because even if your
smart opinion is to favor small government and to ignore it if you
want to achieve anything, the overpowering reality is that what
government people do or don’t in our country can only be ignored
by those with the power and the money to stop government officials
and employees from using the power of their positions to keep others
from doing the good things that ought to be done. This is a fact in
business, farming, government service, and in smalltime as well as
bigtime endeavors.)
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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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Public
perceptions of peripatetic presidents
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The brickbats thrown President Gloria Arroyo’s way over her
allegedly extravagant foreign trips have evidently hurt. Why else,
observers ask, would she take the effort to go on the air to try and
explain her side?
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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Comelec should
review automation plans again
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Before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) moves into the next
stage of its mandate which is the process where candidacies are
filed and accepted for posting on the electoral ballot for the 2010
elections, it must pause and seriously review how the automation of
the election will proceed.
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KAYA
NATIN
By Eirene Jhone
E. Aguila
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The magic word
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Say the magic word. Growing up, we were taught to always say the
magic word. When asking for things, asking for favors, receiving
gifts, when someone does something nice for us or when we cause
someone else to be hassled, “Please” and “Thank you” were
always the magic words.
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EDUCATION
MATTERS
By Felizardo Y. Francisco
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The ETEEAP
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The revolution in knowledgebased economics, globalization and the
“flatness of the world” has exerted an increasing pressure in
the education sector to continuously reinvent itself and be more
accessible to the public.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine
Louise Viernes
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Dance crazes and
hitmakers
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Our country has long steered away from being known as the Pearl of
the Orient. Right now, whenever people from foreign countries are
asked about how they perceive our nation, the images that come to
them are the atrocities that they have seen on television.
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ANALYSIS
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Western public turns against Afghanistan mission
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PARIS: The governments of countries that sent troops to Afghanistan
are now facing increasingly hostile public opposition to the war as
more soldiers die in a distant land and no end appears in sight.
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