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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Everyone has dreams of greatness. The levels vary and the desire to achieve them may differ among people, but there is that common desire to become better than one's current state.
Antonio Trillanes IV is no exception to that. A primary example of which is when he and several other soldiers, ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
If one thinks that it is easy to write a sensible poetry (in David Genotiva’s term), well, think again! Paul Engle spoke once, “The most terrible thing for a poet is to be confronted by a blank sheet of paper.”
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Undas na liwat, time to remember dead kith and kins and be reminded of our own mortality. But it can also be a time for us, the living, to think up of more evolved ways to bury our dead.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Last year, journalists and media peoples in the Philippines have become the front-page of all media print and broadcast materials. It is paradoxical that instead of authoring articles and writing production in the newspaper pages and columns, they become the principal subject of attention by the same publishing paper and ...
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
There are several versions of the truth. This fact is illustrated by Akira Kurosawa's film 'Rashomon' wherein a story of rape and murder is told by four different people which results in conflicting accounts of the story.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
This could have been made as a commentary to that issue on the military presence.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Don’t get me wrong, I’m also for the development of Eastern Samar. I’ve always advocated for increased local revenues, have always wanted jobs for our people and have sincerely wished everybody in the province out of poverty. But how shall we do it? The national and local governments are seemingly ...
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