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                    [Title] => The wall
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Sometimes, history just whizzes by, blindsiding us.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1389828 [Title] => Gorbachev warns world 'on brink of new Cold War' [Summary] =>

Tensions between the major powers have pushed the world closer to a new Cold War, former Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-09 03:48:06 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325611 [AuthorName] => Frank Jordans [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 525104 [Title] => The Virgin in Berlin - Part 3 [Summary] =>

Just before the Berlin Wall fell in ‘89, I stood entranced at the Pergamon Museum in the East, before dazzling shrines to all manner of divinities once rulers of a vanished ancient world. The most impressive was the Gate of Ishtar with tiers and tiers of tiles in blue lapis lazuli and reddish orange carnelian. Wow! I’d never seen anything like it. It used to be one of the Eight Wonders of the World before the Lighthouse of Alexandria replaced it - not for political and clerical reasons, I hoped. If you want to know what real power is, this is it.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135123 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1759825 [AuthorName] => Sylvia Mayuga [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 6231 [Title] => Russia wants dialogue on arms treaty: Gorbachev [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-07-16 04:12:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 340816 [Title] => Painful transition [Summary] => MOSCOW – Everywhere in the world the transition to democracy is long and difficult. Citizens of stable western democracies often tell me this when I complain about the Philippines’ dysfunctional democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev, architect of glasnost and perestroika, had a similar message during a luncheon meeting the other day with about 200 editors from around the world near the Kremlin in this city.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 253618 [Title] => With fervor still burning, thee do our souls adore! [Summary] => The 106th anniversary of our revolutionary government’s declaration of independence was soggy, with the President skipping the flag-raising ceremony in the morning, then a downpour dousing cold water on the afternoon ceremonies. The heavens opened and literally rained on our parade.

Yet, we must not forget that – for all our moans and groans, our disappointments and our doomsaying – we’re a nation blessed by freedom to make fools of ourselves.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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