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                    [Summary] => Ask any businessman how long he thinks it would take to put the economy back on track, and he’d say one year, even two. Prod him again why it would take that long, and he’d first say that’s the way things go. But then he’d quickly add, if only GMA were a little bolder…


Businessmen are a conservative lot. Too many laws for too little capital make them so. Yet when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared during her inaugural that she just wants to be a good President, not only Leftists but businessmen, too, were disappointed.
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                    [Title] => But is GMA really a wimp? -  GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => Perhaps because they’re generals, or are old enough to have worked with her President-dad, or have been in politics longer, they think Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a wimp. Maybe it’s because she’s a woman, or that she looks too short beside hulky husband Mike, or that she was in Joseph Estrada’s mediocre Cabinet. Maybe it’s her searching for consensus first before coming to a decision. Or can it be due to this deprecative line that she rode to Malacanang not on the shoulders of people power but on belated military capitulation?


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                    [Title] => Why do they take GMA for a wimp? - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => Tuesday, 23 Jan.: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s first staff meeting as President. Time to get down to serious business of running a government, after a heady weekend that saw her rise through People Power, followed by headier congratulatory offers. First item on agenda: PNP officer-in-charge Leandro Mendoza was unacceptable to anticrime crusaders. "He’s only OIC," Arroyo shrugged, "replace him with the other guy on the list, Reynaldo Wycoco." Executive Secretary Renato de Villa cut her off, "You can’t appoint somebody, then take it back.
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                    [Title] => So that’s why Erap wants trial closed -  GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => When Ramon Revilla asked from left field how much Jun Yasay bribed him to expose Joseph Estrada’s coercive phone call, Emie Perez could have shot back, "Your honor, I’m not a senator." But that’s not him. An upright journalist who’s always keen to do and be good, Emie  instead nudged Revilla about the virtue of living with one’s means.
* * *
Hundred percent of televiewers who follow Estrada’s impeachment trial tell pollsters they believe he’s guilty.
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                    [Title] => Calling to war a disgruntled army - GOTCHA  by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => At least five  groups of disgruntled AFP and PNP officers had seen it coming. As soon as they heard about battle plans supposedly captured in early December from Moro secessionist Camp Bushra, they knew that their furloughs would soon be over. They’d be called to war again in Mindanao, there to destroy farms and villages in the name of keeping the Republic from being dismembered.


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                    [Title] => Conditioning minds for slick acquittal -  GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => They’ll do anything to quash Chavit Singson’s testimony in Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial. On opening day, defense lawyers accused the whistle-blower of concocting the jueteng bribery story. When his time came to stand as witness, they tried to stop his direct examination by a private lawyer. Simultaneously at the other end of town, Estrada’s gofers at the House of Representatives assailed the congressmen-prosecutors’ use of private counsel. When these didn’t work, senator-judges themselves took turns cross-examining Singson.
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                    [Title] => Erap has the offensive, or so he thinks - GOTCHA  by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => A general knows he has lost the war when his officers start deluding themselves with imagined battle victories. But what if the general himself is busy gloating?


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                    [Title] => Staying in Cabinet prolongs the crisis - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => Executive Secretary Ronnie Zamora wants us to believe that Joseph Estrada is a changed man. That two years of loafing and cronyism after, he is ready to run the government the way a President should from day one. That eight mistresses and several mansions later, he is ready to walk the straight and narrow path of upright leadership. "Stay tuned for new policy pronouncements," Zamora pines, "and you’ll see what I mean."


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                    [Title] => Words of reassurance from military command - JAYWALKER by Art A. Borjal
                    [Summary] => Even now, the House Prosecution Panel is preparing its roster of witnesses who will be presented in the Impeachment Trial of President Estrada. Of course, No. 1 in the list is Ilocos Sur Governor Luis "Chavit" Singson, the close buddy of President Estrada, who dropped the jueteng  and tobacco bombshell. Several other "friendly" witnesses will afterwards be presented to provide evidence that will be adverse to President Estrada.
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                    [Title] => One mansion equals 2,000 mass houses -  GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => It sounded crazy. But then, it’s zany ideas that actually work – and change the world. Cory Aquino boldly proposed to businessmen Friday to do more charity work than ever during these times of dwindling incomes, rising costs and shrinking prospects. And the black-tie audience yelled assent to her seemingly unacceptable suggestion.


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Caretaker President - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

March 7, 2001 - 12:00am

Ask any businessman how long he thinks it would take to put the economy back on track, and he’d say one year, even two. Prod him again why it would take that long, and he’d first say that’s the way...

Opinion

But is GMA really a wimp? - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

January 29, 2001 - 12:00am

Perhaps because they’re generals, or are old enough to have worked with her President-dad, or have been in politics longer, they think Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is a wimp. Maybe it’s because she’s a...

Opinion

Why do they take GMA for a wimp? - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

January 27, 2001 - 12:00am

Tuesday, 23 Jan.: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s first staff meeting as President. Time to get down to serious business of running a government, after a heady weekend that saw her rise through People Power, followed...

Opinion

So that’s why Erap wants trial closed - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

January 15, 2001 - 12:00am

When Ramon Revilla asked from left field how much Jun Yasay bribed him to expose Joseph Estrada’s coercive phone call, Emie Perez could have shot back, "Your honor,...

Opinion

Calling to war a disgruntled army - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

January 8, 2001 - 12:00am

At least five groups of disgruntled AFP and PNP officers had seen it coming. As soon as they heard about battle plans supposedly captured in early December from Moro secessionist Camp Bushra, they knew that their...

Opinion

Conditioning minds for slick acquittal - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

December 16, 2000 - 12:00am

They’ll do anything to quash Chavit Singson’s testimony in Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial. On opening day, defense lawyers accused the whistle-blower of concocting the jueteng bribery story. When...

Opinion

Erap has the offensive, or so he thinks - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

November 25, 2000 - 12:00am

A general knows he has lost the war when his officers start deluding themselves with imagined battle victories. But what if the general himself is busy gloating?

Opinion

Staying in Cabinet prolongs the crisis - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

November 22, 2000 - 12:00am

Executive Secretary Ronnie Zamora wants us to believe that Joseph Estrada is a changed man. That two years of loafing and cronyism after, he is ready to run the government the way a President should from day one....

Opinion

Words of reassurance from military command - JAYWALKER by Art A. Borjal

November 20, 2000 - 12:00am

Even now, the House Prosecution Panel is preparing its roster of witnesses who will be presented in the Impeachment Trial of President Estrada. Of course, No. 1 in the list is Ilocos Sur Governor Luis "Chavit"...

Opinion

One mansion equals 2,000 mass houses - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

November 20, 2000 - 12:00am

It sounded crazy. But then, it’s zany ideas that actually work – and change the world. Cory Aquino boldly proposed to businessmen Friday to do more charity work than ever during these times of dwindling...

Opinion