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Peter Principle
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                    [ArticleID] => 1810617
                    [Title] => Amateur hour at DFA
                    [Summary] => We have a big problem. We have confirmation from events last week that our secretary of foreign affairs has no idea what diplomacy is about… As my friend Greg Macabenta puts it, na (Alan) Peter Principle si Cayetano. In business circles, this means he has reached his level of incompetence. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-04-30 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133182
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804837
                    [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1522412
                    [Title] => Thoughts on 30 years
                    [Summary] => 

On Saturday, this writer reminisced about what has changed and what hasn’t changed in Philippine sports since 1986.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 758347 [Title] => The fairy tale called Selling the MCIA [Summary] =>

In my boyhood, I abhorred listening to fairy tales.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 621619 [Title] => The Peter Principle [Summary] =>

The Manila Police District’s Special Weapons and Tactics team is not the first SWAT unit to bungle big time the rescue of foreign hostages.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 533702 [Title] => Unsolicited advice to Santa Claus, Tiger Woods, Pacquiao & GMA [Summary] =>

This writer can’t for —get that one of the pet peeves of the late President Cory C. Aquino when she was in office was unsolicited advice.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 38742 [Title] => The virtues of democracy [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133541 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355073 [Title] => Why Manny Pacquiao should not join politics [Summary] => Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
–Dr. Laurence J. Peter,
author of The Peter Principle
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