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Justice Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr.: From Court Administrator to Supreme Court Associate Justice
FROM humble beginnings, having been born to poor but hardworking parents, the new Supreme Court Associate Justice Presbitero J. Velasco, Jr. studied hard and started to achieve from his elementary years at the Juan Sumulong Elementary School in Pasay City, graduating First Honorable Mention at age 11. Finishing his high school education at the University of the Philippines (UP) Preparatory School at age 15 and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science also from the UP in a record of three years, he graduated from the UP College of Law at the age of 22, ranking eighth in his graduating class with a weighted average of 1.79 percent. When he took the Bar in 1971, he placed sixth among the top 10 and became a full-fledged lawyer at the age of 23. He is married to Lorna Quinto of Torrijos, Marinduque with whom he has three children: Vincent Michael, Lord Allan Jay, and Tricia.
Aid for Mindanao
THE Philippines Development Forum (PDF), the primary mechanism of the Government for facilitating substantive policy dialogue among stakeholders in the country’s development agenda, held last Thursday and Friday its 2006 Forum, which focused on the theme "Building on Economic and Fiscal Reforms to Achieve Sustainable Growth and Social Progress."
Lying and divorce
TAUTOLOGICALLY, lying is a divorce from the truth. With the recent ruling of SC Associate Justice Dante Tinga, lying is a ground for divorce.
Limits of people’s initiative
THE confidence of ranking officials that the Supreme Court may reverse its 1997 decision and allow the current people’s initiative to run its course is infectious.
The Tripartite Forum for Interfaith Cooperation
(Secretary Romulo reports March 31, 2006 on his official trip to the UN Headquarters in New York and to Washington, DC.)
The Cha-cha train
THE Cha-cha train has already left the station. Around the bend, people are switching the rails to send it over the cliff.
A woman caught in adultery
JESUS went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning He arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to Him, and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle. They said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do You say?" They said this to test Him, so that they could have some charge to bring against Him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger. But when they continued asking Him, He straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." Again He bent down and wrote on the ground. And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So He was left alone with the woman before Him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She replied, "No one, Sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, [and] from now on do not sin any more."
Focus on the Filipino: The last perspective
IT is imperative that in further building our nation, we never lose sight of the final beneficiary, the Filipino: Each and every one of us!
Threat continues
AS reported in international media from New York (AFP) recently, and printed in our local newspapers, Osama bin Laden will never be captured alive according to one of his bodyguards, Abu Jandal, who told the CBS news magazine that this old boss of his had given strict instruction on what should happen if he (Bin Laden) is cornered or is going to be captured and attacked without his bodyguards not being able to save him, Bin Laden would prefer to be killed with his special gun. Former bodyguard Jandal said he believed Bin Laden was hiding out in Afghanistan rather than Pakistan, and also warned that Laden’s most recent threats of terror strike on the United States should be taken seriously. Whether what Jandal revealed is true or not, he said that when Bin Laden promises something, he does it. If that’s so, US should prepare.
Calls for reform intensifying
CALLS and efforts for political, economic, social, military, and other reforms are intensifying.
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