Merry-Go-Round: Floro L. Mercene
I’LL take RP to Enchanted Kingdom of the First World. – GMA
If it means having to leave our Disneyland, we are not going.
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Five supporters of Erap freed after being detained and tortured by the military.
They shoot first and ask questions later — hindi puede yan.
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Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez ordered their release. He did not tell them to go to the mountains. He told them to see their lawyer.
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Former Congressman Mark Jimenez did an outstanding act of philantrophy when he paid for the tuition of some 34,000 poor students to the tune of R20 million.
The students were beneficiaries of an educational plan bought by their parents from a big pre-need company that failed to deliver because of acute financial problems.
Mr. Jimenez plans to give another R30 million next month to the students.
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The distressed parents have banded together to force the company in question to make good on the educational plans to no avail.
They have been sued for libel in the Makati courts and Mark Jimenez is also coming to their rescue.
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Myther Bunag, presiding factotum of the Thursday Club in Malate, was feted by friends and freeloaders last Thursday on his 57th birthday.
Among the bigshots present were Senators Manny Villar and Mar Roxas, Immigration Chief Al Fernandez, Mayors Lito Atienza and Ed Hagedorn, Justice Raul Victorino, Gov. Chavit Singson and Generals Pete Bulaong and Rey Berroya.
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In a parliamentary system, a leader can govern even if the people don’t like you, according to former Senator Vicente Sotto.
But it’s the same in the present system.
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Government is willing to allow journalists to carry firearms.
An admission that the .45 is mightier than the pen.
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AFP and PNP are saying they are not responsible for the systematic killing of militants and journalists.
Translation: The killings will continue for a while.
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National Union of Journalists call on media members to fight back.
Who to fight back and how?
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This early great interest is building for the book-launching of Davide: An unauthorized biography of Chief Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr.(ret), written by Dean Tony Tupaz of the PUP College of Law.
With Max Soliven writing the foreword and Gani Yambot writing about Dean Tupaz, you have two top publishers extolling the book and its author.
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C&E Publishing will launch the 588-page Himalayan biography on June 20 at 4 p.m. in the Supreme Court. Max Soliven will be the guest speaker and will be introduced by acting Chief Justice Reynato S. Puno.
Chief Justice Art Panganiban will say what is expected to be a heady prologue. Justice Davide will close the short program. The brilliant Leonard S. de Vera, IBP president in waiting, will emcee the program.
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Tony Tupaz was described by Soliven as a capable writer. Yambot, who has known Tupaz for 54 years, calls the biography an outstanding work of scholarship.
C&E Publishing entered the printing of law books and the biographies of justices only last year. It has 488 outlets in the Philippines.
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