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                    [ArticleID] => 1274934
                    [Title] => Thinking out of the box of politics
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Many years ago I read an article about a country in Africa that had just become independent. It was advertising for a company to run the country. I thought it was outrageous having been accustomed to think that the men and women who fought for a country’s  independence have the right and obligation to run it.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 828095 [Title] => Poles honor Reagan, John Paul II with new statue [Summary] =>

Polish officials unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II on yesterday, honoring two men widely credited in this Eastern European country with helping to topple communism 23 years ago.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-15 04:05:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 759720 [Title] => Czechs, world leaders mourn Vaclav Havel [Summary] =>

Czechs joined their leaders and foreign politicians yesterday in paying tribute to Vaclav Havel, who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that peacefully toppled communism in the former Czechoslovakia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-19 02:28:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 680482 [Title] => Poles joyful over beatification of John Paul II [Summary] =>

Poles are already calling him John Paul the Great.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-29 09:13:55 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 266416 [Title] => I missed Lech Walesa, but I found the jewel of the Baltic Sea [Summary] => GYDYNIA, Poland – Back home, I see, they’ve discovered another plot by the Islamic terrorists, the Jemaah Islamiyah, to blow up the US Embassy in Manila. The usual quarters will protest: Why are they always blaming the Muslims?

In any event, bombing American embassies, in Jakarta, in Tanzania, in Kenya, and years ago in Beirut, not to mention devastating Twin Towers in New York, seems to be in the "job description" of terrorists from Osama’s al-Qaeda to their sub-group, the Jemaah Islamiyah in Southeast Asia.
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