RACHEL A.G. REYES
AS it happened, a few days before his now much maligned interview with Stephen Sackur on the BBC’s current affairs program ‘HARDtalk’, I got to speak with opposition Sen. Antonio Trillanes at his office in the Senate. I was well aware of his reputation for brusqueness. His tangles with some of his colleagues in the Senate are a joy to watch. His speeches are combative, blunt, abrasive, ardent. He is thought of as a rather humorless, frequently glum-faced, serious thinker. Now that I have finally met him in the flesh, most of this is true. But believe me when I tell you that I also found him cordial, graciously polite, mentally agile, and persuasive.