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Filipinos share one common item in our everyday existence: rice,” National Scientist Gelia Castillo wrote in her book on a cereal that makes or breaks presidents. “Rice In Our Life” reviewed three decades of studies into rice …
Marking the first year as pope is an “arbitrary measure for a 2,000-year old institution that thinks in terms of centuries,” notes the Guardian newspaper. That provides context for Pope Francis, who’ll complete his first year as …
A traditionalist cardinal with a sense of his own splendor is a magnificent beast, like a mammoth draped in embroidery,” noted the Guardian. But under Pope Francis, “they may become an endangered species.” Francis is just two…
Don’t Cry for Me Argentina” is a song from a 1978 Broadway musical. Evita Peron sang from the Casa Rosada balcony, expressing regrets and defiance. No llores por mi Argentina. “The truth is I never left you…
A deluge of comments flooded in from Inquirer readers to the column : “Eraser Senator?” (Viewpoint / Feb 11). That swirled around a suggestion that Senator Juan Ponce Enrile — who turned 90 Valentine’s Day – rewrite…
What gnaws at the guts of Senator Juan Ponce Enrile?” a colleague asked during journalists’ lunch Saturday. JPE turns 90 on Valentine’s Day—and twists in the wind over pork barrel plunder raps. “Intimations of mortality?” we replied.…
Who remembers that Thailand, was once marketed as the “Land of a Thousand Smiles”? Instead of uniting the country, Sunday’s election — where voters cast ballots in 333 of the country’s 375 constituencies. — failed to defuse…
The world, my brother, isn’t like that.” That retort to critics who’d stonewall reforms sweeping the Catholic church came from the cardinal that Pope Francis handpicked to lead mint-new counselors: Oscar Maradiaga of Honduras. How will such…
Inquirer columns elicit comments worldwide. Here are samples from professors abroad to Ilocos Sur students. On the Internet, the opinion pieces spur heated debates. Excerpts: “Prof. Paul Stephen Lim, sent me Viewpoint’s ‘Payback,’” e-mailed University of Kansas…
You shall know the truth. And the truth shall make you mad.” That one-liner by scientist Aldous Huxley sums up the reaction of most people to the Inquirer’s selection of seven whistleblowers as “Filipinos of the Year”.…
The “cartographic”—what? “Cartographic aggression” is shorthand for redrawing maps to gobble up territory, writes Australian Sinologist Geremie Barmé. And last week’s region-wide protests over Beijing’s clamping of new fishing access rules, in disputed portions of the South…
To forget one’s ancestors is to be a tree without a root.” This Asian axiom is apt for the 135th birthday of Sergio Osmeña on Sept. 9. As fourth Philippine president, he led a war-ruined country into…
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