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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Let Comelec do its job
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The Supreme Court has ruled to dismiss the petition to halt the
Commission on Elections (Comelec) from carrying on with automated
elections in 2010. Let’s listen to the credible experts. Let’s
not distract ourselves with needless anxieties about “failure of
elections” as a result of the Smartmatic-TIM’s system going
haywire and the teachers running the polls at the 80,000 clustered
precincts not knowing what to do with the machines.
Our confidence in the Comelec and its
automated-election venture grew when the Supreme Court, in ruling
against the petition, agreed with Comelec’s bold assertion that a
“total failure of elections” was an extremely remote possibility
and that the automated election system bought by the Comelec from
Smartmatic-TIM would be a success.
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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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Poll automation stirs
fresh blood
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Ed Javier belongs to one of the original families of Parañaque. He
has witnessed the ups and downs—mostly downs—of his beloved
hometown, and would like to help it achieve its full potential for
the benefit of all his townmates.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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Politics is unfair .
. . but
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I was killing time Sunday night at the Seoul airport for my
connecting flight to Manila when the airport sound system blared
another sad news from home: the NAIA radar had broken down and we
would be delayed by one hour or so.
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INSIDE
CONGRESS
By Efren L. Danao
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Congress yielding its
power of the purse to Malacañang
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If Congress allows Malacañang to dictate budget priorities and to
have complete leeway on what should be funded, then it has only
itself to blame. After all, the Constitution has given to the
legislative, not the executive, the so-called Power of the Purse.
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Y E G A
P
By Anna Marie Periquet
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Distinguished Bangladeshi
entrepreneur
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During a recent YEGAP conference in Yokohama, I had the privilege of
exchanging views with Mohammed Solayman Rubel, one of the most
distinguished young entrepreneurs in Bangladesh.
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FROM
THE NEWSROOM
By Johnna Villaviray-Giolagon
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Justice for
journalists
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Afghan journalist Sultan Munadi, 34, was killed during a rescue
operation by British forces. Days earlier, he was kidnapped by
Taliban militants while doing a story with a foreign journalist in
Afghanistan’s Kundoz province. A member of the rescue team also
died during the raid.
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ANALYSIS
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Osama bin Laden appears weakened in new video
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DUBAI: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appears to be a man weakened
under pressure in his latest video message, which is addressed
directly to the American people, analysts said on Monday.
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LETTER
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On J. T. Gatbonton’s
Notes and Comment
Please allow me to comment about your “Notes
and Comment” writer Juan T. Gatbonton’s “A country of immense
and largely unseen failures” (September 14, 2009) and his other
writings.
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