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                    [ArticleID] => 1301349
                    [Title] => Whistles a-blowin’
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The most coveted role du jour seems to be that of state witness, resulting from one’s role as a whistle-blower, and with the way our government officials have been behaving all these years, there is no lack of scams and anomalies that are coming out now in this era of openness and transparency, so there will correspondingly be no lack of people who may want to blow the whistle on such nefarious activities.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135573 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632694 [AuthorName] => Notes from the editor [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1202261 [Title] => Street fighters [Summary] =>

Somewhere across the Atlantic, there is a movement brewing. Where our singers are making waves in TV shows abroad, our couture designers are being worn by top model-smizer Tyra Banks, our boxers are becoming the kings of the ring, and our cuisine is being recognized as the next big thing, there is a group of street wear designers who have been constantly hustlin’ and doin’ their thing — putting their own stamp on clothing labels whose hem and haw trace back to the motherland.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136069 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231896 [AuthorName] => Christopher De Venecia [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 953789 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Crooks emboldened by apathy [Summary] =>

In light of the spate of killings in Cebu, this question was asked: "Why are crooks so bold?" The answer is, of course, that crooks are only as bold as society allows them to be. And that is the sad part because that is precisely what Philippine society has done.

[DatePublished] => 2013-06-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 780317 [Title] => EDITORIAL - What's in a name? [Summary] =>

Apparently stung by unflattering portrayals of Philippine legislators on TV and film, Pampanga Rep. Aurelio Gonzales Jr. filed a resolution in the House of Representatives asking the local TV and movie industry to stop typecasting members of Congress as crooks.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 606287 [Title] => PUJ owner cries foul [Summary] =>

WHO TAMPERED WITH IT? A PUJ owner was nabbed for “tampering” with his plate number and was fined P10,000.

[DatePublished] => 2010-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1769982 [AuthorName] => The Ear [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 518995 [Title] => The unraveling of Chiz Escudero [Summary] =>

 Legendary Manila Mayor Arsenio Lacson once described a ‘young once’ politician as “so young and so corrupt.” In those days, our society still harbored illusions that the youth were idealistic, innocent and generally incorruptible.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133540 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 452170 [Title] => Emasculated [Summary] =>

If criminal investigators drag their feet on corruption cases and Congress shirks its oversight duties, there is another way of going after crooks: follow the money trail.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 450777 [Title] => Timely and stirring appeal [Summary] =>

Several weeks ago, I received in my e-mail a letter addressed to “all Filipinos everywhere” written by a brave woman apparently disgruntled but not disheartened by the turn of events in our country.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 62565 [Title] => EDITORIAL - In cold blood [Summary] =>

From the manager to the janitor, eight employees and a security guard were found murdered in their bank in Cabuyao, Laguna yesterday morning; the customer relations manager died in a hospital later in the afternoon. Authorities are still trying to determine the amount that was taken from the bank vault.

[DatePublished] => 2008-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 322705 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Crime alert [Summary] => For all those rosy reports about a falling crime crate, the public can only be alarmed by recent events. A band of thugs raids the armory of a private security agency and carts away 35 M-16 rifles, 15 shotguns and 15 bulletproof vests. Two months later, during the early evening rush hour, the band tries to steal at gunpoint the van of a 19-year-old nursing student waiting for his sister in a shopping center on a busy, narrow road in Parañaque City. When the young man resists, he is shot dead.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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