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Playing with Fire

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A ‘superman’ in our midst By Gonzalo Duque WE were simply glad, awed, too, we met anew our old and durable friend, Attorney Reynaldo A. Villar, older brother of newsmaker non pareil Presidential Anti Smuggling Group chief Bebot Villar at the birthday party of the congresswoman wife of Congresswoman Naid…

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Playing with Fire

By April 20, 2009Archives, Opinion

Harvest Time

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Broiler production increases with 2 veterinary products By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico TOP BROILER contract growers in Pampanga and Pangasinan are pointing to two veterinary products as having played a key role in their being top producers of a big time broiler contract growing integrator. The contract growers – Enrique…

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Harvest Time

By April 20, 2009Archives, Opinion

Viewpoints

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Financial crisis and Filipino resiliency By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It would be unrealistic to claim that there was ever a time when the Philippines wallowed in opulence or abundance, when the Filipinos had all that progress and development could give. The truth is rather this Country and its…

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Viewpoints

By April 20, 2009Archives, Opinion

Sports Eye

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Tour of Luzon returns By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT was the year 1976 when the last Tour of Luzon was held, a multi-stage bicycle road race held annually under the intellectual property ownership of the late Atty. Geruncio Lacuesta. A son of a fisherman named Modesto F. Bonzo from…

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Sports Eye

By April 20, 2009Opinion, Sports Eye

Roots

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Shallow bliss By Marifi Jara COMING home from a far less developed country, where infrastructure is so poor, feels like stepping back into paradise. From the airport, my brother drove us through the Pampanga-Tarlac segment of the new Subic-Clark expressway (all the while hailing how great it is). While that…

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Roots

By April 20, 2009Archives, Opinion

Feelings

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Not with my son, you don’t! By Emmanuelle This week, this mother talks: It was an indescribably difficult birth, but finally, after twelve hours of dry labor my first child was born. He will be my first and only son. I will have my first and only girl many years…

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Feelings

By April 20, 2009Feelings, Opinion

Punchline

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The ‘SC’, a whole new world By Ermin Garcia Jr. As someone who has been blest with the ownership of a senior citizen’s card for a year now, I feel it my duty, nay my responsibility to write about my new kind of people – the beautiful, all-knowing senior citizens….

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Punchline

By April 13, 2009Opinion, Punchline

Think about it

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Art Lomibao eyes JdV post By Jun Velasco AT the Lyceum Northwestern U’s graduation rites at the Stadia Saturday, Commission on Higher Education Chairman Manny Angeles said his office will uphold at all times the merit system and, logically, rebuke the misfit, the abusive and the corrupt in the field…

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Think about it

By April 12, 2009Archives, Opinion

Playing with Fire

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The Lessons of Lent By Gonzalo Duque WE saw the graphic face of man’s (and woman’s) suffering when we served during the Ramos presidency as Deputy Administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) in the early 90’s. It was quite an experience. Yes, the tragic face of poverty is…

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Playing with Fire

By April 12, 2009Archives, Opinion