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The knee-jerk reaction of journalists. who retire after spending a lifetime chasing the next headline, is to cast about for the next one. Take it from us. We who’ve spent over half a century in this quest.…
Juan L. Mercado, who retired last month as CDN columnist, still writes an occasional piece when he’s provoked. Developments in Cebu’s water supply situation signal one of those times. –- Editor In early January, 14,000 parched Metro…
Editorial and TV desks are swamped on December 28 by features on practical jokes. The ones fooled are ribbed: Na-Niños Inocentes. That jab refers to the feast of the Holy Innocents. Liturgy readings recall King Herod went …
All of us have favorite Christmas articles. “In the Year of his Lord” has been republished by Wall Street Journal since 1948. And the 1950 midnight mass homily by the historian Horacio de la Costa is another.…
The Christmas star lantern or parol at our home is always a latecomer by local standards. Since September, the first of the “ber” months, parols have already decked the malls and street corners. Mini- stars sway from…
Vice President Jejomar Binay seeks to meet with representatives of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP). Why? He’ll explain his side in the raging controversy over Makati pork. Fine. While at it, why doesn’t the…
We give back to You who first gave them to us: our faithful dead, whose beauty and truth are even now in our hearts.” That line from Rufus Ellis resonated as the wife and I, like thousands…
Listen beyond Vice President Jejomar Binay’s flustered stutters whenever a sensitive question is lobbed. Queries range from the P15.6 million Redwood type three-bedroom unit of The Woodlands at Tagaytay Highlands, overpriced beds at the Ospital ng Makati …
The good news is : Substantial strides were made in the Philippines and elsewhere to get more food on tables. The bad news is: 805 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished. And levels of overlooked hunger are…
They best symbolize the concern of October synod which ends Sunday: The “pingpong children” shuttle between separated parents are trapped in wars or swept in often chaotic immigration waves. Set up by Paul VI in 1965, the…
Most of us are fixated on Vice President Jejomar Binay’s now 15 percent – and still plunging – nose dive in poll standing as well as that sprawling P1.2-billion Batangas hacienda with air-conditioned orchid farm or bogus…
Don’t be lulled just yet into El Niño drought being downgraded by the Department of Science and Technology. The peak is just ahead. Beefed-up sustained response for rougher threats in the years ahead is more urgent than…
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