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                    [Title] => FOR THE RECORD: Young tenor Lorenzo to perform anew at Marco Polo Plaza
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The Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu’s only five-star hotel, brings back the multi-talented tenor, Lorenzo, for another powerful two-night performance at the Lobby Lounge on April 17 and 18, beginning 9:30pm.

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Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (K-4) campaign spokesman Michael Defensor made this fearless forecast as he took strong exception to claims by Bangon Pilipinas candidate Bro. Eddie Villanueva that the evangelist would be the main beneficiary of Roco’s withdrawal from the presidential race.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 246341 [Title] => Ping claims P100-M Roco merger offer [Summary] => PAGUDPUD, Ilocos Norte — Opposition presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo Lacson claimed yesterday that the camp of former senator Raul Roco had asked for P100 million from him in exchange for the merger of their forces.

He told reporters covering his campaign sortie here that it was former Cebu governor Lito Osmeña, whose Promdi is part of Roco’s three-party coalition, who negotiated for the former senator and education secretary.
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It was sad, piercingly painful looking at Jaime Cardinal Sin Friday at the EDSA Shrine as he went about his chores. When seated before the Mass, the visage that once swept a room or a hall with priestly luminosity now hang with a grave melancholy. If I may be pardoned a figure of speech, Cardinal Sin Friday looked like a great St. Bernard, stricken with illness, jowls loose and hanging, his gaze fixed wanly in space as in a reverie. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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The Marco Polo Plaza, Cebu’s only five-star hotel, brings back the multi-talented tenor, Lorenzo, for another powerful two-night performance at the Lobby Lounge on April 17 and 18, beginning 9:30pm.

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Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (K-4) campaign spokesman Michael Defensor made this fearless forecast as he took strong exception to claims by Bangon Pilipinas candidate Bro. Eddie Villanueva that the evangelist would be the main beneficiary of Roco’s withdrawal from the presidential race.
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He told reporters covering his campaign sortie here that it was former Cebu governor Lito Osmeña, whose Promdi is part of Roco’s three-party coalition, who negotiated for the former senator and education secretary.
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It was sad, piercingly painful looking at Jaime Cardinal Sin Friday at the EDSA Shrine as he went about his chores. When seated before the Mass, the visage that once swept a room or a hall with priestly luminosity now hang with a grave melancholy. If I may be pardoned a figure of speech, Cardinal Sin Friday looked like a great St. Bernard, stricken with illness, jowls loose and hanging, his gaze fixed wanly in space as in a reverie. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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