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The plea for compassion for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is presumably coming from good faith. But the reasons offered to rationalize such gesture are simply preposterous.

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[DatePublished] => 2006-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238307 [Title] => ‘Peace’ with the NPA before May? You must be kidding, Ma’am [Summary] => Everybody loves "peace". The happiest of those lovers, of course, are those who are sent off on peace missions abroad at taxpayers’ expense. Yep, even to Oslo, Norway, in the dead of – brrrr – winter.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202993 [Title] => Brave new world [Summary] => A butterfly fluttering its wings, it is said, induces a storm somewhere else in the world.

A war won with such devastating clarity as that conducted against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq should change the atmosphere of global politics entirely.

As the Iraqis collect the pieces of their lives and attempt to build a new future out of the ashes of war, the rest of the world struggles the grasp the dimensions of a new world order. It is a brave new world that cannot be fully understood using concepts from the past.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196060 [Title] => The Supreme Court reverses, reprimands and ‘fines’ the Comelec! [Summary] => This is hot news! Yesterday the Commission on Elections, meaning Comelec Chairman Ben Abalos and the six Comelec Commissioners, got a stinging rebuff from the Supreme Court.

Not just a rebuff either – for the first time in history, since it became an independent constitutional body in 1940, the Comelec got its comeuppance from the High Tribunal for defying a Supreme Court ruling in the cases involving "party-list" members of the House of Representatives.
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[DatePublished] => 2002-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 134103 [Title] => French leader backs US strike [Summary] => French President Jacques Chirac pledged his country would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the Americans" in a looming strike against international terrorism.

In an interview with Cable News Network, Chirac said France stands by the resolve of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to treat an attack on one member-nation as an attack on all member-nations.
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PARIS -- Malacañang's bright boys may just have to downplay "unrealistic expectations" and look for the silver lining behind President Estrada's upcoming trip to this glittering French capital in early June.

This is the word that's coming out of Filipino officials both in Manila and in Paris who are frantically (and needlessly) working behind the scenes to make the President's Parisian sojourn, scheduled for June 6-7, measure up to the pomp and pageantry of visits to Beijing in late May and to London from June 2 to 5.

But the French, who invented protocol or at least [DatePublished] => 2000-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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                    [Title] => Justice first before mercy
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The plea for compassion for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is presumably coming from good faith. But the reasons offered to rationalize such gesture are simply preposterous.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133891 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1794477 [AuthorName] => Yoly Villanueva-Ong [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329883 [Title] => Two prime ministers on the ropes: Nope, not JDV in RP [Summary] => Today a graduate. Tomorrow, unemployed! Don’t despair. That’s the way we felt when we graduated, too. After the party, we realized that we had to look for a job.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238307 [Title] => ‘Peace’ with the NPA before May? You must be kidding, Ma’am [Summary] => Everybody loves "peace". The happiest of those lovers, of course, are those who are sent off on peace missions abroad at taxpayers’ expense. Yep, even to Oslo, Norway, in the dead of – brrrr – winter.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202993 [Title] => Brave new world [Summary] => A butterfly fluttering its wings, it is said, induces a storm somewhere else in the world.

A war won with such devastating clarity as that conducted against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq should change the atmosphere of global politics entirely.

As the Iraqis collect the pieces of their lives and attempt to build a new future out of the ashes of war, the rest of the world struggles the grasp the dimensions of a new world order. It is a brave new world that cannot be fully understood using concepts from the past.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 196060 [Title] => The Supreme Court reverses, reprimands and ‘fines’ the Comelec! [Summary] => This is hot news! Yesterday the Commission on Elections, meaning Comelec Chairman Ben Abalos and the six Comelec Commissioners, got a stinging rebuff from the Supreme Court.

Not just a rebuff either – for the first time in history, since it became an independent constitutional body in 1940, the Comelec got its comeuppance from the High Tribunal for defying a Supreme Court ruling in the cases involving "party-list" members of the House of Representatives.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195943 [Title] => Why worry about North Korea’s nuke plant? We’re still paying for a plant we never used! [Summary] => Could we have become a "nuclear power", or developed our stillborn nuclear capacity into a weapon of mass destruction? Most Filipino taxpayers seem to have forgotten that for the past 18 years, we’ve been paying the US firm of Westinghouse hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly in interest for an over-priced, scandalous nuclear plant that had to be mothballed immediately and was never used.
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In an interview with Cable News Network, Chirac said France stands by the resolve of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to treat an attack on one member-nation as an attack on all member-nations.
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PARIS -- Malacañang's bright boys may just have to downplay "unrealistic expectations" and look for the silver lining behind President Estrada's upcoming trip to this glittering French capital in early June.

This is the word that's coming out of Filipino officials both in Manila and in Paris who are frantically (and needlessly) working behind the scenes to make the President's Parisian sojourn, scheduled for June 6-7, measure up to the pomp and pageantry of visits to Beijing in late May and to London from June 2 to 5.

But the French, who invented protocol or at least [DatePublished] => 2000-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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