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Unlike many newspaper columnists, I don’t have much of a political or business network, being a not-very-sociable recluse who prefers to play poker with a few regulars and going out on dinner dates with the wife than to clink glasses with the cognoscenti.

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COLUMNISTS. Some business executives, while having coffee at a snack bar in one of the city's shopping malls, talked about some of what they called "fiery and hard-hitting" newspaper columnists. "Lingaw kaayo ko paminaw nila," said our Ear informer.

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COLUMNISTS/COMMENTATORS. The lady president of a business corporation said during free-wheeling after-dinner discussion of Phl economic problems...

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E-MAIL ADDRESS. It has become the practice of most, if not all, columnists to write their e-mail address at the end of their columns.

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CLASSIC.

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Let’s string along TF’s current weekly query on what caused the decline of PNoy’s popular rating.

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As one who jumped from campus writing to professional journalism, and stuck to its rules as best as I can for the past four decades, I am worried for this vocation that some say is older than the supposedly oldest profession.

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A keen political observer said he no longer wonders why the leading presidentiable is leading. “He’s all over,” the observer said.

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Unlike many newspaper columnists, I don’t have much of a political or business network, being a not-very-sociable recluse who prefers to play poker with a few regulars and going out on dinner dates with the wife than to clink glasses with the cognoscenti.

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COLUMNISTS. Some business executives, while having coffee at a snack bar in one of the city's shopping malls, talked about some of what they called "fiery and hard-hitting" newspaper columnists. "Lingaw kaayo ko paminaw nila," said our Ear informer.

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COLUMNISTS/COMMENTATORS. The lady president of a business corporation said during free-wheeling after-dinner discussion of Phl economic problems...

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E-MAIL ADDRESS. It has become the practice of most, if not all, columnists to write their e-mail address at the end of their columns.

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CLASSIC.

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Let’s string along TF’s current weekly query on what caused the decline of PNoy’s popular rating.

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As one who jumped from campus writing to professional journalism, and stuck to its rules as best as I can for the past four decades, I am worried for this vocation that some say is older than the supposedly oldest profession.

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A keen political observer said he no longer wonders why the leading presidentiable is leading. “He’s all over,” the observer said.

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