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                    [Title] => Is Christ born in your heart?
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It’s Christmas! It’s the birthday of Jesus and the Christian world is in jubilation.

[DatePublished] => 2012-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 534986 [Title] => A Philippine Christmas story [Summary] =>

We may not have a classic Philippine Christmas story (we do have a classic New Year story though), but we do have an old Christmas story. On the day before Christmas, we thought it appropriate to tell the story, which predates Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol by a full century.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 424595 [Title] => A Christmas Travelogue [Summary] =>

When my elder son Ian Irving married the love of his life, Marites Mutia, they deferred their honeymoon until towards December as they planned a European month-long jaunt.

[DatePublished] => 2008-12-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136089 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500520 [AuthorName] => Marlinda Angbetic Tan [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 409055 [Title] => Want some cheese with that whine? [Summary] =>

There may be nothing more tragic than a joyless, whining man. Each time I think of such a character, the following personas ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134178 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215075 [AuthorName] => Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 444 [Title] => Cheating done explicitly, foreign observers say [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374995 [Title] => EEI The Reunion [Summary] => Ah...holiday season! Red and gold paper buntings, the trees adorned with little Santas and cotton snowflakes on its branches, the voices of Frank Sinatra, Ray Coniff and Barry Manilow blaring in the radio and in the Brea Mall's speaker system as if to remind you, lest you forget, that it is Christmas. [DatePublished] => 2006-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1180368 [AuthorName] => Boy Regner Mercado [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 309664 [Title] => December marks start of the Christmas season [Summary] => To mark its official start of the Christmas season, the city of Manila unveiled a 30-foot high and 15- foot wide Christmas tree right in front of the City Hall. In Makati, Mayor Jejomar Binay announced that this year, in lieu of putting up Christmas lights and decorations, the city will feed the poor and hungry this Christmas season. It’s all in the spirit of Christmas.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 93788 [Title] => Mehan garden controversy peacefully resolved [Summary] => We were very pleased to read that Manila Mayor Lito Atienza gracefully agreed to transfer the site of the City College of Manila from Mehan Garden to Intramuros. We understand that the City College will be built where the old Ateneo de Manila was. There is another very challenging but great opportunity here.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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