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Friday, January 30, 2009 |
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EDITORIAL
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Enforced dereliction of duty?
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AD HOC arrangements have their uses in good governance. Temporary
panels and committees in the British govern-ment, for example, are
known to produce good results—while not costing much money because
they are not permanent structures.
There have surely been occasions in the
Philippines when temporary and independent committees were
necessary—and beneficial.
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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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Debunking nuclear
energy myths
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Nuclear energy is again a hot topic, thanks to a bill filed in
Congress that seeks to earmark $1billion for a project to
“revive” the Philippine Nuclear Power Plant (PNPP) in Morong,
Bataan.
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HEADS
UP
By Joel P. Palacios
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Skin-deep Obama
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The name Barack Obama is like a super typhoon racing across the
country, churning powerful winds of change. People are swept off
their feet by the Obama magic. Politicians are scrambling to join an
Obama cult, and, it is likely, the name will be a big influence in
Philippine presidential elections in 2010.
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KAYA
NATIN
By Jc Delos Reyes
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The audacity of hope (in
the Philippines)
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Hope, according to the Catholic Dictionary by Fr. John Hardon, S.J.,
is the virtue, which instills a confident desire of obtaining a
future good that is difficult to obtain which draws out a person’s
volition. It is the opposite of despair.
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AMBIENT
VOICES
By Ma. Isabel Ongpin
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In praise of the DSWD
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The well-known and well-regarded executive agency, the Department of
Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), celeb-rates its 58th year
today.
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YOUTHOPIA
By Marylaine Louise Viernes
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Have you seen love?
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Many people try to look for love and never seem to find it. Worse is
that others end up licking their bitter wounds after their adamant,
hopeful search has ended. Maybe they just didn’t know where to
search for it.
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GUARDED WELCOME TO MOODY’S
By Gonzalo M. Jurado, Ph.D.
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Professor of Economics,
Kalayaan College
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So Moody’s Credit Rating Agency is coming to town to evaluate the
country’s response to the financial meltdown that is now
devastating planet Earth. This is a welcome development because it
will likely result in a discovery of...
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ANALYSIS
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Why ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ wows West but is only so-so in rural India
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MUMBAI: The Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire has been a hit
in Indian city multiplexes since it opened here last week, but has
not found favor in single-screen cinemas and small towns, film
industry analysts say.
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