FIDEL Valdez Ramos graduated from West Point in 1950. He earned a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1951. Serving in the Philippine Expeditionary Force in the Korean War in 1952 as a second lieutenant and platoon leader, Ramos began to move up the ranks. He serv
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IT only takes a sustained growth of 7 percent in GNP for seven continuous years for the Philippines’ poor to cross the threshold to middle-class status in about 10 years, even assuming that income distribution remains unchanged.
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THE four farmers were listless and melancholic. They loaded the sacks of unhusked rice (palay) on their respective carabao-drawn carts. It was as though they were unduly burdened by the activity. The four remained quiet as they mechanically went about their work.
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NUMEROUS ideas that have been followed during the past half century in the effort to eradicate poverty or at least reduce it. Over and over again, national and international leaders have pointed to poverty as the fitting target for collective and individual effort. A recital of the different approac
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THE Roa-Bernardo petition filed in the Supreme Court seeking to unseat President Arroyo for allegedly using public funds in her campaign for the presidency and install Vice President Tito Guingona is not only a novel theory. It may be an absurd theory. Since this is an election period, how can we te
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JAIME L. Cardinal Sin, former Archbishop of Manila, observes today the 37th anniversary of his ordination as a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. While he has retired as Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Sin remains devoted to the Church and to the Filipino people. It is appropriate to remember his e
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THE misfortune of the Philippines is that it has never experienced the cleansing effects of civil wars nor enjoyed the benefits of a welfare state, or to paraphrase Jeremy Bentham, "The greatest happiness of the greatest number," which should have been introduced to the Philippines by our former col
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NOT all the women of the Philippines bowed to Spanish rule during the colonial era. There were many of them who nurtured the idea of ending foreign rule and unchaining their suffering countrymen. One of them was Gabriela Silang.
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I STILL cannot make up my mind which version I prefer. That of Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion or that of Josh Groban and Charlotte Church. But I’m absolutely sure The Prayer is one of the greatest song hits of all times. Not only is it good music. Its lyrics are spiritually uplifting.
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico left a deep imprint on the Philippines but what is not generally realized is that the Philippines left an equally deep imprint on Mexico. They were practically one and the same country during the Spanish colonial era, linked by the galleon trade for 250 years, becoming separated
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ONCE in a rare moment of journalist wanting to write about a quaint human interest story stumbles upon a person who is an authoritative source of that good story.
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AWESOME are the proofs of the resiliency of the human spirit.
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Luke 2:41-51
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