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SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar
SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar
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Sacrifice & stability
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 10, 2006 - 12:00am
JAKARTA, Indonesia –The Christian Holy Week this year opens in the Muslim world, oddly enough, with the celebration today of the 1,427th birth anniversary of the Prophet, Nabi Mohammad, Salallahu Alaihi...
Back to the life of an OFW
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - August 8, 2005 - 12:00am
Aquarter century ago, as a newly minted Harvard MBA and fresh out of a New York bank training program, I started my professional career as a junior expatriate on assignment in Hong Kong. It was a heady time for...
John Paul the Great
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 10, 2005 - 12:00am
In the run-up last week to the Friday funeral of the late Pope, I came across a news story about a growing popular initiative to honor him as John Paul "the Great".
Why I am (now) a conservative
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - April 4, 2005 - 12:00am
No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. – Ronald Reagan Friends who are familiar with my colorful – initially, and loudly,...
A tale from two generals
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - March 21, 2005 - 12:00am
Your Armed Forces is totally committed towards genuine reform as shown in the past and current efforts. We have learned a vital lesson that the institutionalization of these reforms would depend on the cooperation...
THE ‘L’ WORD
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - February 14, 2005 - 12:00am
(I return to these pages after nearly two years of "vacation," having turned out my last column way back in May 2003. At the time, things were starting to heat up at the telephone company whose debt restructuring...
Communism, kimchi & Nelia Sancho
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - October 19, 2003 - 12:00am
The mind’s eye remembers the first sight of her, more than 30 years ago, alighting from a UP ikot jeepney, as every bystander turned to watch those impossibly long legs, barely covered by a miniskirt, cross...
Blessed are the poor
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - June 23, 2003 - 12:00am
Recently, I took my turn to host the regular fellowship dinner for the boisterous company of the Foundation for Economic Freedom.
Deep blue seas
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - May 12, 2003 - 12:00am
When my firstborn came to visit over the Christmas holidays after being away for over a decade, we naturally thought to lay out the red – or rather, green – carpet for him. See the Philippines, rediscover...
DENR Secretary Bebet Gozun: From '70s firebrand to post-Edsa reformer
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - December 15, 2002 - 12:00am
Memory serves not faithfully, but well enough to awaken the past. It starts with a slip of a girl from the UP in the late Sixties, a long-tressed lass with impossibly dark eyes and a mole under curving lips. A girl...
A gathering of (bald) eagles
by SUPERABIMUS By Gary Olivar - January 23, 2002 - 12:00am
The year 2001 has got to go down in my memory as the year this writer never was. My literary drought clearly wasn’t for lack of events to write about. On the national scene, EDSA 2 finally brought a well-deserved...
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