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President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s official visit to Italy, Vatican, and Spain
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will leave today for an official visit to Italy, Vatican, and Spain. The President’s six-day official journey is expected to further strengthen the long-standing bonds between our country and the three states to be visited.
DNA as destiny
PEOPLE who lie, steal, cheat, and even kill, are sometimes thought of as born politicians and criminals, which means that it’s their destiny.
Weak public policymaking
WHILE serving as Chairman of the Senate Health Committee in the late eighties, I realized there was something terribly wrong with our health care delivery. Too many people have no access to ready health care. So I proceeded to inquire into it and discovered, to my dismay, that no one except a few economists in some universities and even fewer experts in public health, had studied the matter more than cursorily.
A citizen’s view of Cha-cha
THE overriding object of Charter change should be to empower our people, strengthen State capacity, and insure good governance. Measured against the institutions of our vigorous neighbors, the weakness of our own is plain to see in laws honored "more in the breach than in the implementation;" in a tax effort that is the lowest in ASEAN; in the continued existence of political warlords; in the corruptibility of portions of the officialdom; in the shallowness of our legislative discourse.
Twinning of professional courses
THROUGH the years, the twinning of professional courses has contributed to the mutual enhancement of curricula-, the deepening of connectivities between different fields of endeavor, the creation of innovative approaches to situations and issues which demand inputs from more than one profession, and the de-professionalization of certain professional courses highly steeped in preserving and promoting their own professional expertise.
Homegrown terrorism starts to worry US
WASHINGTON — While top White House officials often like to point out that al-Qaeda is on the run, the indictment Friday of seven men in Miami has highlighted a new threat that has the US worried -homegrown terrorism.
Success or failure: Your choice
THE true story below illustrates beautifully the importance of education and earning a degree. Likewise, leading a moral life is crucial to achieving one’s goal. This is a reminder to all students who have returned to school.
A reality check on CARL/CARP
THE current topic that is being talked about, specially in Negros Occidental, is whether the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, and program should be extended or not. One needs to review the record of success or failure of land reform, starting from P.D. 27, issued during the Marcos martial law regime. The Marcos Decree, subjecting all corn and rice lands to land reform, has not produced the avowed objective. As I recall, the main purpose was not only to improve the social-economic conditions of the rice and corn farmers, specially the tenants, but also to attain self-sufficiency in said vital food commodity. The other objective, in theory at least, was that the rising income of the farmers in the rural areas would result in a stronger Philippine economy, because the farm sector would have the financial resources to improve themselves by building/improving their own houses, sending their children to school, and buying the necessities that a prosperous rural community can afford, in short, putting money in the countryside would stimulate the national economy.
The calming of a storm at sea
ON that day, as evening drew on, [Jesus] said to His disciples, "Let us cross to the other side." Leaving the crowd, they took Him with them in the boat just as He was. And other boats were with Him. A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke Him and said to Him, "Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?" He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Quiet! Be still!" The wind ceased and there was great calm. Then He asked them, "Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?" They were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?"
Iraq, treasure trove of Biblical history
A FRIEND of my daughter Lalaine from Los Angeles, California e-mailed the following interesting Bible facts about Iraq which I am reproducing – highlighted by Chapter 9, Verse 11 of the Koran. To many of us here and abroad 9/11 has a memorable impact. Here is the e-mailed information:
Caring for the elderly
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day;"
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