Revisiting an old story

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Edener Benitez Fabella
25 Mar 2008
 
 
Looming rice crisis reminded me of a classic college joke about a poor man’s dream of his son earning a college degree. The old man sacrificed everything in order for his son to succeed in life. The story line is of bountiful rice and nothing else.
Today parang nabaliktad. There’s plenty [...]

Tufts U, not Harvard

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Ed Pontaoe
25 Mar 2008
 
 
Did Rachel Arenas graduate at Harvard? Highly unlikely!
Her political campaign tried very hard on the impression she graduated at Harvard.
She went to school in America on the idea that schools in the Philippines are below par . . . not up to her standard.
In reality, she attended Tufts University at Medford [...]

Corruption is everywhere

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Edwin
25 Mar 2008
 
 
Ed Pontaoe
The comments that I made was in the PAST tense. Yes, we could have gone on welfare but as stated in my last post, my mother taught us pride in ourselves. We relied on hard work and God’s help to persevere. You probably grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth [...]

In denial mode

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Jeremias Andrade Carrera
25 Mar 2008
 
 
I believe there are people who know how to read but refuse to understand what they are reading or shall we say they are always in denial mode like GMA.
If it is true that Taiwan has more problems than the Philippines, then why is Taiwan ranked 6 of 30 in [...]