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Broken bread Posted 00:22am (Mla time) Mar 24, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the March 24, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer EASTER may have the climax, but Maundy Thursday has the oldest practices peculiar to Holy Week. Of course, many Catholics associate Holy Thursday with the Mass since the day commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist.

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Champion Posted 00:15am (Mla time) Mar 23, 2005 By Conrado de QuirosInquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the March 23, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer FIRST off, it's a lesson for local TV. Next time it covers a blockbuster sports event, it has to do it in real time. The days when networks can be a little avaricious and air those things "on a slightly delayed

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Vigilance Posted 11:38pm (Mla time) Mar 22, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the March 23, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez was being true to character when he blithely told the media that a potential terrorist threat to Baguio City had been "mentioned" at a Cabinet meeting, while saying in the same breath he hoped this

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Fighting spirit Posted 11:42pm (Mla time) Mar 21, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the March 22, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer MANNY Pacquiao fought a good fight, but he lost to a taller, smarter, more experienced boxer. Still he deserves our applause for his courage and fighting heart. He gave the fight his all, but it was not enough to defeat Erik

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Chicken wire policy Posted 11:11pm (Mla time) Mar 20, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 21, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE REST of the country may not care about Bayani Fernando's latest experiment in urban planning and development, but we think there are crucial lessons to be learned from the ongoing fiasco that is the "chicken wire"

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World Bank democracy Posted 08:56pm (Mla time) Mar 19, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 20, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer BY TRADITION, it is the United States which nominates the president of the World Bank; Europeans choose the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. In nominating the controversial Paul Wolfowitz, a leader

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There ought to be a law Posted 00:20am (Mla time) Mar 19, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 19, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE FRUSTRATED escape attempt of Abu Sayyaf leaders put a damper on the handover of command in the Philippine National Police. Reactions to recent policy recommendations made by Gen. Efren Abu have also resulted in

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A question of martyrs Posted 11:56pm (Mla time) Mar 17, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 18, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer A FOREIGNER once held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf probably expressed what many Filipinos feel. Callie Strydom in South Africa said of Ghalib Andang, alias "Commander Robot": "He probably got the death he was seeking. I

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Cleaning up Posted 11:45pm (Mla time) Mar 16, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 17, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, as expected, has ordered a thorough investigation of the failed jailbreak attempt that turned into an uprising and left 28 people dead. Her spokesman, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, said

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Incompetence Posted 00:01am (Mla time) Mar 16, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 16, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE DEATHS of Ghalib Andang, alias "Commander Robot" and Alhamzar Limbong, alias "Kosovo," who were accused of leading several of the Abu Sayyaf's kidnapping operations and the bombing of the Superferry 14 in February 2004,

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What next? Posted 11:13pm (Mla time) Mar 14, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 15, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. TAX consumers for the use of raw water? Next they will be taxing people for breathing in air. And then tax people for daily physical activities like eating, drinking, etc.The National Water Resources Board last week was

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Wanted: more judges Posted 11:35pm (Mla time) Mar 13, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 14, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IT WAS Joseph Estrada, then vice president of the Republic, who popularized the term "hoodlums in robes," referring to corrupt judges and an unreliable judicial process. It was also Estrada, in his inaugural address as

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Innocence Posted 00:16am (Mla time) Mar 13, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 13, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE NEWS from Bohol has cut us to the quick. In part, it is because the tragedy was not caused by extraordinary weather or an out-of-the-ordinary situation; it arose out of the familiar routines of daily life. A crowd of grade

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Happy logging! Posted 11:40pm (Mla time) Mar 11, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THREE months after the disastrous rains in Eastern Luzon that punished denuded forests and resulted in floods, landslides and loss of lives and property, the government is oh so casually lifting commercial log bans wholesale

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Starving the corrupt Posted 00:06am (Mla time) Mar 11, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 11, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer SAN JUAN Mayor JV Ejercito is furious that the Hong Kong-based Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (PERC) rated the Philippines second only to Indonesia for corruption in the region. His competitive instincts must

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In the same fix Posted 11:44pm (Mla time) Mar 09, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 10, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE FIRST quarter of the year isn't over yet, and already there have been two big increases in gasoline prices and three in diesel prices, bringing them to record levels. It certainly looks like we're in for a repeat of the

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Ignorance and insecurity Posted 11:46pm (Mla time) Mar 08, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 9, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WHEN Lt. Gen. Edilberto Adan, deputy chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, proposed to restrict media interviews with groups engaged in fighting the government, saying that broadcasting by radio,

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A world of their own Posted 11:33pm (Mla time) Mar 01, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer PERHAPS because she used to be a senator, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has always approached legislative liaison work with a light touch. On more than one occasion, she has downplayed the administration's

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Corruption watch Posted 11:43pm (Mla time) Mar 06, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 7, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. IT IS a sign of how the promises of Edsa remain unrealized that in the last celebration of the 1986 revolution, there were calls for checking corruption and fostering accountability and transparency. The positive thing here

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Suicide notes Posted 00:03am (Mla time) Mar 06, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 6, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE CONTROVERSIAL passage of the 2005 national budget is an object-lesson in politics as practiced in the Philippines. The details paint a vivid portrait of the two houses of Congress as they actually conduct their business:

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In harm's way Posted 11:26pm (Mla time) Mar 03, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 4, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer MALAYSIA'S Home Minister Azmi Khalid has said: "Compared to Guantanamo Bay, we are a five-star hotel. We do not do things that are inhumane. This is our guarantee."He was referring to the massive crackdown recently launched by

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A world of their own Posted 11:33pm (Mla time) Mar 01, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer PERHAPS because she used to be a senator, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has always approached legislative liaison work with a light touch. On more than one occasion, she has downplayed the administration's

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Idiot box Posted 11:05pm (Mla time) Feb 28, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the March 1, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. SOCIAL Welfare Secretary Corazon "Dinky" Soliman last week warned parents against the evils of excessive TV viewing by children. Giving an update on her department's Early Childhood Development Project, Soliman said that marathon

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Witness Posted 10:52pm (Mla time) Feb 27, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 28, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE POPE'S emergency tracheotomy last Thursday has raised, for the second time in a month, the one question that never fails to exercise news organizations around the world: Who runs the Church when the Pope is ill?The question,

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Amazing Posted 11:33pm (Mla time) Feb 26, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the February 27, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer AT A TIME so many doctors are taking up nursing so they can find employment overseas, Christopher and Maria Victoria Bernido would probably strike a lot of people as an odd couple. After going to the United States to earn their

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Wrong reasons Posted 11:21pm (Mla time) Feb 25, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the Febrauary 26, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer SUPPORTERS of a national identification card system are quick to point out that we live in a society that demands identification for nearly any activity anyway.There is merit to this argument. It is true that the

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On reviving the mining industry Posted 11:53pm (Mla time) Feb 24, 2005 INQ7.net (INQ7.net editor's note: Below are selected, condensed postings of INQ7.net readers on the site's Talking Points section. For the full text of postings and to participate in the discussion, go to news.inq7.net/talkingpoints/)I think the government should give more attention and push through with the real essence of

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No regrets Posted 11:36pm (Mla time) Feb 24, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 25, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer EVERY year as the nation commemorates the 1986 Edsa Revolution, Filipinos used to the Lenten feeling of remorse and regret to strike their breast, say mea culpa, and declare that everything has gone for naught. There seems to

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Diaspora is not good for us Posted 11:43pm (Mla time) Feb 23, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 24, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THIS is in reaction to the column of Johnny Mercado on the Philippine diaspora. (PDI, 1/25/05) We must remember that no country has ever become strong because of diaspora. Diaspora is to a nation what

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Unshared burden Posted 09:44pm (Mla time) Feb 23, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the February 24, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer BARELY three months after declaring that we were over the hump, President Macapagal-Arroyo has resurrected the specter of an Argentina-type economic meltdown. "The bottom line is, we need to raise P80 billion [through]

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Caught Posted 11:11pm (Mla time) Feb 22, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 23, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer AT THE PRESENTATION of the Millennium Project report of the United Nations at the Hotel Dusit in Makati City last week, President Macapagal-Arroyo enthused: "More government officials are being charged with corruption. Soon, they

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Dishonorable Posted 10:56pm (Mla time) Feb 21, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the February 22, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WHAT is Congress, or more specifically, the House of Representatives, coming to? In recent years, several members of the Lower House have been convicted or accused of crimes or implicated in their commission. (The chamber

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Open City Posted 10:22pm (Mla time) Feb 20, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 21, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE BATTLE for Manila 60 years ago did not change the course of World War II or hasten its end. It did not inaugurate a new phase in the Pacific campaign or create a military breakthrough. But it was marked by unspeakable

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Dead letter Posted 10:02pm (Mla time) Feb 19, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 20, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WHEN the Kyoto Protocol was first signed, it was met with joy and excitement throughout the world. The 1997 agreement pledged its signatory countries to implementing programs against global warming. With the world weather

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Overkill alert Posted 00:09am (Mla time) Feb 19, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 19, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE VALENTINE'S Day bombings have resulted in a chorus of protests against terrorism. They have achieved what their perpetrators did not expect: a rousing call against extremism and its pretensions. They have consolidated

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Bad mood Posted 00:52am (Mla time) Feb 18, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 18, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE TWO-NOTCH ratings downgrade by Moody's Investor Service caught some of our august senators in a foul and fantastical mood. Ignore Moody's, Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. urged on the Senate floor on Wednesday

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Wishful thinking Posted 00:27am (Mla time) Feb 17, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 17, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE EYES of the world media were riveted on Rome over the last weeks, when Pope John Paul II was reported to be gravely ill from the flu. As things turned out, prompt medical attention resulted in the 82-year-old Pontiff

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The way of terrorists Posted 11:15pm (Mla time) Feb 15, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 16, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer BY MAKING common cause with a faction of the Moro National Liberation Front loyal to Nur Misuari, the Abu Sayyaf apparently sought to gain recognition and support, if not respectability, as a revolutionary group

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A global step Posted 01:01am (Mla time) Feb 15, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 15, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. SOME people have the impression that the World Economic Forum is just one huge talkfest where participants discuss problems and issues to death. This year's annual meeting, held last Jan. 26-30 at Davos, Switzerland,

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Disjoint Posted 00:09am (Mla time) Feb 12, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer DONALD Dee, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), has said: "Imposing new taxes can cause short-term pains for business and consumers alike. However, its long-term effects will be beneficial in

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The home front Posted 11:07pm (Mla time) Feb 08, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 9, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer US Ambassador Francis Ricciardone recently gave this advice to Filipinos: "You need to decide what kind of relationship you want to have with Iraq -- how you want Iraqis to remember Filipinos and the Philippines

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The greatest moral issue Posted 10:58pm (Mla time) Feb 07, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 8, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. LAST Friday in London, on the eve of a meeting of the leaders of the world's richest nations, former South African president Nelson Mandela demanded freedom for the millions of "slaves" of poverty all

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Reforming media Posted 11:56pm (Mla time) Feb 05, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 6, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer OVER A HUNDRED journalists gathered in Tagaytay this weekend to discuss, yet again, the problems vexing the Philippine media. Should the public even care? We all should, because as the "media summit" made

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Precondition to peace Posted 10:54pm (Mla time) Feb 06, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 7, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE PEACE talks between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front resume in Kuala Lumpur this month. Because three armed encounters last month cast a pall over the already protracted peace

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Quantity over quality Posted 11:43pm (Mla time) Feb 04, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 5, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer TWO developments have brought to the fore once more the woeful state of our education system: one is the finding by the British Council that there are too many colleges and universities that are "diluting

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Dancing... Posted 00:25am (Mla time) Feb 04, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the February 4, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THAT the Philippine government continues to flail at the immovable object that is Japan on the matter of its new policy of regulating the entry of Filipino entertainers poignantly illustrates the arid employment

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Real milestone Posted 11:12pm (Mla time) Jan 31, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the February 01, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. WE were among the many who feared that American mistakes and anti-American insurgents would spell doom for the elections in Iraq. We are glad that the long-suffering Iraqi people proved us wrong. The final

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Turning point? Posted 10:56pm (Mla time) Jan 30, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 31, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. REGARDLESS of what will finally happen in the polling centers of Iraq, US President George W. Bush will declare a victory in the precincts of Washington. That is what troubles us the most about the elections

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The new team Posted 00:07am (Mla time) Jan 30, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 30, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer AT LEAST this much can be said about the President's new Cabinet appointments. They don't have "political payback" written all over them. This time around, the list of appointees is not burdened by an

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Unfriendly act Posted 11:22pm (Mla time) Jan 28, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 29, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE UNITED States has traveled far from the days of Herbert Hoover, when US Secretary of State Henry Stimson shut down the cryptonalytic office (which was in charge of intercepting written intelligence), saying,

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Judicial underworld Posted 11:20pm (Mla time) Jan 27, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 28, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THERE seems to be a conflict of interpretations of the results of the survey of the Social Weather Stations on judicial corruption. Although one newspaper reported that the survey showed lawyers believing

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Small fry Posted 09:40pm (Mla time) Jan 26, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 27, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE ANNOYING THING about the exchange between Environment Secretary Michael Defensor and Sen. Jamby Madrigal is that the fundamental connection between forestland use agreements and deforestation has been lost in the

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Islam and peace Posted 10:43pm (Mla time) Jan 25, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 26, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer ONE of the five pillars of Islam is the hajj, or the pilgrimage every good Muslim is encouraged to take to Mecca at least once in a lifetime. On the last day of this year's hajj, Sheik Abdul-Aziz al-Sheik,

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Golden carrot Posted 11:25pm (Mla time) Jan 24, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 25, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IT'S HARD to say if the highly publicized filing of graft cases against high-living internal revenue and customs officials has put the fear of the law in the hearts of their peers and the rank and file. What is

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The Bush jubilee Posted 11:41pm (Mla time) Jan 23, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 24, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. WHAT has US President George W. Bush's extraordinary second inaugural address wrought? Mainly, it has pushed Americans right to the brink. The leader of the world's only superpower has asked his fellow

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Cease fire Posted 01:04am (Mla time) Jan 23, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 23, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE NEWS from tsunami-stricken areas has taken a disturbing, if not unexpected, twist in recent weeks. Renewed fighting between government troops and insurgents in some parts of Indonesia and Sri Lanka has

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Swagger Posted 00:53am (Mla time) Jan 22, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 22, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE 55TH presidential inaugural in American history held Thursday night (Manila time) formally set the 43rd president of the United States on his second and last term. George W. Bush successfully sought reelection as a

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Downgraded Posted 00:48am (Mla time) Jan 21, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 21, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer NOW that the feared-for has come true -- a sovereign credit downgrade from Standard & Poor's -- comes the finger-pointing between Malacañang and Congress. If the blame-pinning continues, then the country risks a

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High on publicity Updated 11:00am (Mla time) Jan 16, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 16, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE GOVERNMENT has an addiction problem; it is addicted to law enforcement by publicity. Consider the case of illegal drugs, the country's worst law-enforcement problem. Last year, the anti-illegal drugs

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A new dawn? Updated 11:46pm (Mla time) Jan 16, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 17, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. EX-PRESIDENT Joseph Estrada returned from Hong Kong on Saturday with new, titanium knees and old, leaden rhetoric. His 19 days in the former Crown Colony, he said, had given him strength of will and clarity of

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Kid in a candy shop Updated 01:05am (Mla time) Jan 15, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 15, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THOSE days are gone. I have responsibilities now," Joseph Estrada told Agence France-Presse the other day. He was responding to media reports that he was living it up and partying in Hong Kong following

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Democratic substitution Updated 00:32am (Mla time) Jan 14, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 14, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN ASKING the Presidential Electoral Tribunal that she be allowed to substitute for her deceased husband Fernando Poe Jr. in his election protest against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Susan Roces

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Almost forgotten Posted 01:59am (Mla time) Jan 20, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 20, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer FOUR years ago today, the Filipino nation repeated what it did in 1986 when it overthrew a dictator, a feat that was unprecedented, by ousting a corrupt president through a peaceful revolution. Edsa II was

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Watching cops Updated 04:47am (Mla time) Jan 19, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 19, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN THE WAKE of PO1 Jonathan Moreño's serial shooting of five policemen and a young girl, the Philippine National Police has responded with the usual noise: investigations and talks about reforms galore. But the

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Looking up Updated 00:09am (Mla time) Jan 18, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the January 18, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THINGS are looking up for the economy, and unless something catastrophic occurs, 2005 should be a good year. Last Wednesday the peso rallied to a five-month high against the US dollar, appreciating to the 55-to-

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Joking? Updated 01:15am (Mla time) Jan 13, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 13, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IF it were a song, the "accomplishment report" Vice President Noli de Castro handed out to the media last Sunday would have sounded offbeat and out-of-tune. He trumpeted particularly his achievements as chair of the

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Can of worms Updated 01:39am (Mla time) Jan 12, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WHY did Sandiganbayan Justice Edilberto Sandoval resign? Or rather, why did he quit his post last Monday as chair and member of the special division trying former President Joseph Estrada on plunder and perjury

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Heating up Updated 10:53pm (Mla time) Jan 10, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the January 11, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE RECENT tsunami disaster, the fatal heat wave in Europe in 2003 and the stronger and more violent storms that have hit various parts of the earth in the past four or five years should set the world thinking

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All wrong Updated 11:44pm (Mla time) Jan 09, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the January 10, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE TRIAL balloon that was the Romeo Jalosjos pardon seems to have fallen back to earth, deflated of its pretensions. Have justice and reason triumphed? We cannot be sure, because President Macapagal-Arroyo has not

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The summit Updated 03:02am (Mla time) Jan 09, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 9, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer AT FIRST, the very idea of a one-day post-tsunami summit seemed extravagant: a gathering of politicians when politics seemed irrelevant. But the event, a concept that came naturally to the diplomats of the

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Tsunami of errors Updated 00:52am (Mla time) Jan 08, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 8, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN A BELATED attempt to stem the tsunami of erroneous textbooks from flooding the education system, the National Book Development Board (NBDB) has come out with "the new rule on the cancellation of

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Exorcising demons Updated 00:57am (Mla time) Jan 07, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Pulished on page A12 of the January 7, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE SURVEYS at the end of last year showed that most Filipinos remain optimistic of their prospects in 2005. Past surveys have always found that majority of Filipinos feel optimistic about the coming year.

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Forgiveness Updated 00:56am (Mla time) Jan 06, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 6, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE OLD-BOYS CLUB otherwise known as Congress appears to be plumping itself up to bully proportions in the case of ex-Rep. Romeo Jalosjos. That's assuming it's true that, as Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said

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Solidarity Updated 10:13pm (Mla time) Jan 04, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 5, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IT is right for President Macapagal-Arroyo to attend the special meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that will discuss the setting up of programs to mitigate the impact of future disasters in the

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Counting the costs Updated 11:26pm (Mla time) Jan 03, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the January 4, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE disaster caused by tsunamis last week over an area spanning Eastern Africa and South Asia is turning out to be the costliest catastrophe that has hit the world in more than a hundred years. The cost in

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Urgent change Updated 01:34am (Mla time) Jan 03, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the January 3, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE PRESIDENT has called it right. The new year is "a year of urgent change" -- for the country, but especially for her administration. Change, like charity, begins at home. In her New Year's message, and in

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Public interest Updated 02:09am (Mla time) Jan 02, 2005 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 2, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE MANILA International Airport Authority (MIAA) took over the NAIA Terminal 3, a few hours after getting approval from the Pasay City Regional Trial Court. It was time the government did it. The Supreme Court

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Hope Updated 10:39pm (Mla time) Dec 31, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the January 1, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE LATEST Social Weather Stations survey bears glad tidings-if we look hard enough. At first glance, the main storyline would seem to be essentially negative: The number of Filipinos optimistic about the new year has

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Dangerous revelry Updated 01:59am (Mla time) Dec 31, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the December 31, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer TONIGHT the skies will light up with a thousand and one flares and a legion of blazing portents. No, it's not the end of the world. It's just the traditional New Year's Eve revelry of fireworks,

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Recurring tragedies Updated 11:52pm (Mla time) Dec 27, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the December 28, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. TWO recent tragedies -- the series of four typhoons that killed 1,062 people and the death in a fire of Speaker Jose de Venecia's youngest daughter -- have once again focused attention on two recurring

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Time to rebuild Updated 11:42pm (Mla time) Dec 26, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 27, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. THE STREAM of donations has turned into a trickle, slowed down by the debris of even more recent events: the death of Fernando Poe Jr., the four-day Christmas weekend holiday in its wake. Donor fatigue may

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The day after Updated 09:33pm (Mla time) Dec 25, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the December 26, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer View full-size editorial cartoon FROM THE TABLES of the rich, groaning with food, to the humble homes of the poor, where there is little materially to share--for all of us, Christmas is over. This doesn't mean

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Can you hear it? Updated 09:52pm (Mla time) Dec 24, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A10 of the December 25, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN A TIME of lingering anguish and sudden loss, Christmas comes almost like an irrelevance. After the tempest of a divisive and long drawn-out election year, after the sorrow of unexpected death (those of

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Banal Christmas Updated 01:37am (Mla time) Dec 24, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the December 24, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer TONIGHT, before midnight, Filipinos will flock to Catholic churches across the archipelago to attend the penultimate Mass ending the novenary of early dawn Masses that started last Dec. 16. Strictly speaking,

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Spectacle Updated 01:11am (Mla time) Dec 23, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the December 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer FROM A DISTANCE, the throngs that turned out to bury Fernando Poe Jr. appeared what prognostications said they would be -- not only ardent but also adulatory and noteworthy for endurance. In fact, they made for a

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Long goodbye Updated 05:10am (Mla time) Dec 22, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 22, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE PATH to the North Cemetery will be long. In the fresh, cold, crisp air, the legions will walk. Fernando Poe Jr.'s coffin, on a caisson, will be pulled by horses, but his fans, friends and family will walk.

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A widow's advice Updated 00:09am (Mla time) Dec 21, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the December 21, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WE would like to add our voice to the call of those who counsel against using the funeral of Fernando Poe Jr. to destabilize the government. The death of "Da King" has been politicized enough, and at this

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Bias Updated 11:52pm (Mla time) Dec 19, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 20, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. PERCEPTIONS have their own reality. This is what we must remember when we take the measure of a Filipino icon like Fernando Poe Jr. It is also what we must keep in mind when we seek to understand his widow's angry and

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Half-cocked Updated 02:29am (Mla time) Dec 19, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 19, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN POLITICS as in ordinary life, compromise is the necessary art. But there are compromises that push people farther apart, rather than bring them closer together; concessions that give insult, rather than

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Everyone's battle Updated 06:04am (Mla time) Dec 18, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 18, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer TONY Man-wal Kwok, former deputy commissioner and head of operations of Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), is trying to give Filipinos the benefit of his experience. He served for

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Politics of grief Updated 01:11am (Mla time) Dec 17, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 17, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IT'S a paradox that in his death, Fernando Poe Jr. has achieved what he sought out to attain in his failed presidential bid: to unite a severely fragmented nation. And it is the paradox of unity that in a

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In denial Updated 02:01am (Mla time) Dec 16, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 16, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer MALACAÑANG is raising the bogey of a credit downgrade to push Congress into enacting several tax measures, said Sen. Joker Arroyo. The administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has resorted to this "sickening"

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The quiet man Updated 02:23am (Mla time) Dec 15, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 15, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer IN "MEASURE for Measure," there is this Shakespearean line: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." Fernando Poe Jr. was, first and foremost, that rare example of a man, the self-made aristocrat. There is no

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Conservation Updated 02:05am (Mla time) Dec 14, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 14, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. MORE than a week after four cyclones struck various parts of Luzon, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) warned that Metro Manila could have a water shortage. It said the avalanche of logs and mud

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Year of infamy Updated 00:33am (Mla time) Dec 10, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 10, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer ON DEC. 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, journalists in the Philippines have come together to remind their readers,

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Rocking Updated 01:03am (Mla time) Dec 09, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 9, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer In youth, the heart exults and sings, the pulses leap, the feet have wings. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow AS the Philippine Daily Inquirer celebrates its 19th anniversary today, it would not be an exaggeration to say

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Root causes Updated 02:53am (Mla time) Dec 08, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 8, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer THE WORLD knows Oxfam as a development, relief and campaigning organization that works with others to find lasting solutions to poverty and suffering around the world. Right here, in the wake of flood and

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Taming typhoons Updated 11:33pm (Mla time) Dec 06, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A12 of the December 7, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. "It (Hurricane Isabelle) reminds me of Cleopatra... Really pretty, but kind of sinister." -- American scientist Hugh Willoughby while admiring a swirling blue-gray satellite image of "Isabelle," which killed

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Not entitled Updated 01:34am (Mla time) Dec 06, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 6, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. TO BE certain, Senate President Franklin Drilon's appeal to his fellow legislators to give up part of their pork barrel funds in favor of the many flood and landslide victims seemed not a little gimmicky-as though

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Things to do Updated 00:44am (Mla time) Dec 05, 2004 Inquirer News Service Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the December 5, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer WE have often chided the President for issuing laundry lists of things to do during moments of national import, instead of offering the nation a bold, inspiring vision. But in this time of calamity, such a list is

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