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Referring to a former Philippine president and his wife, a court justice declared in 2003, “The sum of US$304,372.43 should be held as the only known lawful income of respondents since they did not file any Statement of Assets and Liabilities (SAL), as required by law, from which their net worth could be determined.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 646712 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Long overdue [Summary] =>

Finally, the Presidential Commission on Good Government is headed for abolition. Two years is still a long wait for winding down the operations of an agency whose functions have largely been taken over by other offices such as the Department of Justice.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7818/startoonthumbc.gif ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 516603 [Title] => Accessorize thyself [Summary] =>

This is the story of a burnt-out businesswoman who wanted a respite from doing the same old thing for years and years.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1513632 [AuthorName] => Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493141 [Title] => Let them eat cake [Summary] =>

It was an Imeldific scene at Versailles, circa late 1780s, just before the outbreak of the French Revolution.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236973 [AuthorName] => Claude Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 380159 [Title] => To whine, or not to whine: That is the question [Summary] => It's finally happening, I thought to myself. Newspapers and tv news shows were filled with reports about the ASEAN Summit. After its postponement last December, I had doubts about whether or not the summit would really be taking place in Cebu.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133188 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440145 [AuthorName] => Kay Malilong-Isberto [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369162 [Title] => Letter to the Editor — ASEAN preps out of order [Summary] => Education is a right and not a privilege. It must be accessible to the greatest number of Filipino youth. It must be provided by the government to the people, as it is constitutionally-bound to be.

It is in this light that we oppose, in general, the commercialization of education - the selling of education as a commodity - which makes education a right of a few who can pay and not the right of every Filipino. It is in the same light that we oppose, in particular, the lavish spending of the Arroyo administration for a four-day event.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364348 [Title] => Borgy vs. Kris in 2022? [Summary] => To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, may one day be president of the United States. – US President George W. Bush

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. – US President Harry S. Truman

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. – Frank Dane


[DatePublished] => 2006-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 353539 [Title] => The Shoe Fits! [Summary] => HSBC recently invited seven stylish city gals who showed off their fave shoes in an exhibit set up at the Museum Shop of Ayala Museum to launch the HSBC RED MasterCard’s "Love Shoes?" campaign. This allows newly-approved RED MasterCard primary applicants to pick a free pair of Janylin shoes worth up to Php1,600! To underscore women’s passion for shoes, the seven gals were also asked to accessorize their choice of Janylin shoes, which they later modeled for those who attended the event.

HAPPY DAVID

[DatePublished] => 2006-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133292 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1429811 [AuthorName] => JR Isaac [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 324282 [Title] => Getting carried away in Saigon [Summary] => There was so much brouhaha over Imeldific’s collection of shoes, so much so that she is known the world over as "Imelda, the shoe lady." But realistically speaking, when I look at the shoe collection of most of my friends, they are at par, if not a teeny bit less, than that of Imeldific’s. We raise our right hand and say "guilty" to the same passion: shoes and more shoes. Filipino women just love shoes, and it does not stop there. When buying shoes, it is a must to buy the bag that goes with it. [DatePublished] => 2006-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1739447 [AuthorName] => SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298112 [Title] => Imelda is right this time: Those priceless jewels of the Czar and Shah of Persia must not be sold [Summary] => Do you know what the PCGG – which ought to have been scrapped as a government agency at least four years ago – is trying desperately to auction off in fire-sale fashion through Christie’s, the international "quick fix" but glittering pawn shop of worldwide repute? A priceless and irreplaceable collection collected by the ex-Superma’am, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, at the height of the Marcos hegemony.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
IMELDIFIC
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                    [ArticleID] => 770119
                    [Title] => Setting the example
                    [Summary] => 

Referring to a former Philippine president and his wife, a court justice declared in 2003, “The sum of US$304,372.43 should be held as the only known lawful income of respondents since they did not file any Statement of Assets and Liabilities (SAL), as required by law, from which their net worth could be determined.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 646712 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Long overdue [Summary] =>

Finally, the Presidential Commission on Good Government is headed for abolition. Two years is still a long wait for winding down the operations of an agency whose functions have largely been taken over by other offices such as the Department of Justice.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7818/startoonthumbc.gif ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 516603 [Title] => Accessorize thyself [Summary] =>

This is the story of a burnt-out businesswoman who wanted a respite from doing the same old thing for years and years.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1513632 [AuthorName] => Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 493141 [Title] => Let them eat cake [Summary] =>

It was an Imeldific scene at Versailles, circa late 1780s, just before the outbreak of the French Revolution.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1236973 [AuthorName] => Claude Tayag [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 380159 [Title] => To whine, or not to whine: That is the question [Summary] => It's finally happening, I thought to myself. Newspapers and tv news shows were filled with reports about the ASEAN Summit. After its postponement last December, I had doubts about whether or not the summit would really be taking place in Cebu.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133188 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1440145 [AuthorName] => Kay Malilong-Isberto [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 369162 [Title] => Letter to the Editor — ASEAN preps out of order [Summary] => Education is a right and not a privilege. It must be accessible to the greatest number of Filipino youth. It must be provided by the government to the people, as it is constitutionally-bound to be.

It is in this light that we oppose, in general, the commercialization of education - the selling of education as a commodity - which makes education a right of a few who can pay and not the right of every Filipino. It is in the same light that we oppose, in particular, the lavish spending of the Arroyo administration for a four-day event.
[DatePublished] => 2006-11-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364348 [Title] => Borgy vs. Kris in 2022? [Summary] => To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, may one day be president of the United States. – US President George W. Bush

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference. – US President Harry S. Truman

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. – Frank Dane


[DatePublished] => 2006-10-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 353539 [Title] => The Shoe Fits! [Summary] => HSBC recently invited seven stylish city gals who showed off their fave shoes in an exhibit set up at the Museum Shop of Ayala Museum to launch the HSBC RED MasterCard’s "Love Shoes?" campaign. This allows newly-approved RED MasterCard primary applicants to pick a free pair of Janylin shoes worth up to Php1,600! To underscore women’s passion for shoes, the seven gals were also asked to accessorize their choice of Janylin shoes, which they later modeled for those who attended the event.

HAPPY DAVID

[DatePublished] => 2006-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133292 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1429811 [AuthorName] => JR Isaac [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 324282 [Title] => Getting carried away in Saigon [Summary] => There was so much brouhaha over Imeldific’s collection of shoes, so much so that she is known the world over as "Imelda, the shoe lady." But realistically speaking, when I look at the shoe collection of most of my friends, they are at par, if not a teeny bit less, than that of Imeldific’s. We raise our right hand and say "guilty" to the same passion: shoes and more shoes. Filipino women just love shoes, and it does not stop there. When buying shoes, it is a must to buy the bag that goes with it. [DatePublished] => 2006-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135486 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1739447 [AuthorName] => SAVOIR FAIRE By Mayenne Carmona [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298112 [Title] => Imelda is right this time: Those priceless jewels of the Czar and Shah of Persia must not be sold [Summary] => Do you know what the PCGG – which ought to have been scrapped as a government agency at least four years ago – is trying desperately to auction off in fire-sale fashion through Christie’s, the international "quick fix" but glittering pawn shop of worldwide repute? A priceless and irreplaceable collection collected by the ex-Superma’am, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, at the height of the Marcos hegemony.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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