A LEPER came to [Jesus] [and kneeling down] begged Him and said, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out His hand, touched him, and said to him, "I do will it. Be made clean." The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. Then, warning him sternly, He dismissed him at once. Then He said to him, "See that you tell no one anything, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them." The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter. He spread the report abroad so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town openly. He remained outside in deserted places, and people kept coming to Him from everywhere.

IN the republic of Lilia de Lima, aka PEZA or Philippine Export Zone Authority, the director-general writes her own rules and stands by them, come one or two or three presidents of the bigger Republic.

IN full force.

(Editor’s note: There’s no need to study poverty at a cost of R1 B of tax money. We can see the very poor around us every minute as noted by the author.) <br> FOR 2009 there’s a proposed budget of P10.5 billion for the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), which has initiated a program "to identify who and where the poorest families in the country are."

ORDINARY employees are the audience of the internal road show that the CEO and senior officers conduct to promote the charter statement and the strategy map. In this event, they are simply on the receiving end of the message that the people on top of the organization dish down to them. For the most part, they are passive listeners.

BAGUIO CITY — The contracted developer of the city’s dilapidated public market said it is going to implement the P1.7-billion project even though it has been greatly affected by the escalation of prices of construction materials.

BAGUIO CITY — For the second time this year, the mercury level in this mountain resort city dropped yesterday morning to its lowest level of 9.6 degrees Celsius.

An attempt to smuggle 225 units of Lenovo desktop personal computers (PC) worth a total of R12 million by a blacklisted importer was foiled by the Bureau of Customs (BoC) X-ray Inspection Project (XIP) at the Port of Manila (PoM).