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                    [Title] => Erap could have done a Reagan
                    [Summary] => During his presidency, Joseph Estrada often told me how he idolized Ronald Reagan. In objective hindsight, the careers of both men had uncanny similarities. Both men entered the movies and became matinee idols, although Erap claimed that he won more awards than Reagan. Not many know that Reagan had his first screen test in 1937, the year Joseph Estrada was born. Reagan became president of the Screen Actors Guild while Erap was the founder and president of the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation (MOWELFUND). 

[DatePublished] => 2004-06-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 99175 [Title] => Government Must Protect Its Credibility [Summary] =>

Understandably, government spokesmen are trying to downplay events of the past few days. That may just be the thing that will erode confidence. While these recent man-made disasters shouldn't be made bigger than life, government must not make people think these are anything but serious.

How can the police authorities, for instance, say that the Glorietta and Megamall incidents are not related to the hostilities in Mindanao? They don't know that for sure. At least, not at the time they were asked, which was a few minutes after the incidents happened. [DatePublished] => 2000-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 87487 [Title] => Barican raps Siazon over ambassadorial post yarn [Summary] =>

Conduct unbecoming a professional diplomat.

This was the tart response of outgoing Presidential Spokesman Fernando Barican to the comment of Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon that the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is not an employment agency.

Barican is reportedly being eyed for the post of ambassador to either Indonesia or Argentina.

Siazon was quoted as saying the DFA was not an employment agency, and that an ambassadorial assignment for either Barican or Tourism Secretary Gemma Cruz-Araneta -- also reportedly on the way out -- would be a "demotion."

"I never [DatePublished] => 2000-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )

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