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                    [Title] => Politics of convenience
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                    [DatePublished] => 2007-07-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1573714
                    [AuthorName] => Ni Gerry Auxillo
                    [SectionName] => Banat Opinyon
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                    [ArticleID] => 317841
                    [Title] => VFA: Who’s to blame?
                    [Summary] => When former Vice President, then Senator, Tito Guingona saw the draft of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), he immediately rejected it saying it infringes on our sovereignty. At that time, many people thought Tito Guingona was being too nationalistic and too anti-American. In fact, when he was concurrent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he wanted to confine the American troops inside designated camps and make the rules a little more stringent. His perennial run-ins with GMA over the VFA ultimately caused their parting of ways and cost him his job as Foreign Secretary.
                    [DatePublished] => 2006-01-22 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133593
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                    [ArticleID] => 303925
                    [Title] => Walang silbi ang people’s court
                    [Summary] => BIGO ang sari-saring diskarte para mapatalsik si Presidente Arroyo sa kapangyarihan. Idinaan sa impeach-ment,  mga imbestigasyon ng Senado at protest rallies.  Presidente pa rin si Gloria. The opposition is still dauntless. Ngayon, may bagong pakulo" People’s court. Sa pamamagitan ng "hukumang bayan" na pamumunuan ni dating bise presidente Tito Guingona, lilitisin ang Pangulo sa mga dati nang akusasyon laban sa kanya.

[DatePublished] => 2005-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 303185 [Title] => Why do people turn anti-GMA? [Summary] => At a very early age, GMA showed signs of being bullheaded. At a young age of four, she already went against her mother by living away in Iligan with her maternal grandmother simply because she was jealous of her younger brother Diosdado "Buboy" Macapagal Jr. That early, one could already sense the kind of steely character she would have. But the seeming general feeling the public has about GMA is that she is insincere. Her "I am sorry" television statement was the biggest disaster of her presidency in terms of image. [DatePublished] => 2005-10-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133593 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302726 [Title] => Armed [Summary] => This is the scandal of it all.

If Sen. Jamby Madrigal cannot do without an armed bodyguard beside her, she should refrain from joining street demonstrations. That is the dictate of civic duty.

Video footage of last Friday’s hosing of what was claimed to be a religious procession show an armed man at the frontline of the protestors. The dolt apparently dropped the gun and picked it up while dispersal procedures were under way.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 243784 [Title] => Is FPJ that bad for the economy? [Summary] => Some may say, how could I even ask that question! Isn’t it obvious? Well, I am not sure anymore who hurts the economy more: Ate Glo or FPJ. True, the peso’s decline accelerated after FPJ announced his candidacy. But the peso was on a downward trend for months before that fateful day.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242855 [Title] => A doctor weeps / Spain and terror [Summary] => The library phone rang early Monday and I had to sprint to catch the call while swallowing the last morsels of breakfast. The caller was a well-known doctor, a close family friend, and immediately I knew something was wrong. His voice was unusually gravelly, often grating at his throat, and it was just a matter of split-seconds before he opened up – close to tears. "Teddy," he said, "what happened? Why did Vice President Tito Guingona join the camp of Fernando Poe Jr.? What is happening to us, to the country? Why? [DatePublished] => 2004-03-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242755 [Title] => Tito [Summary] => Every morning, I take my coffee from a deep blue mug with the Senate seal on it. The mug was a gift many years ago from then Senator Teofisto Guingona.

I like the mug. And I like the person from whence it came.

Tito Guingona is a character from another age. That shows in the manner he delivers his speeches. He delivers his oratory in a vintage Churchillian style native to an age before television cameras zoomed in on the speaker, making exaggerated gestures unnecessary. Nay, distracting.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 242607 [Title] => Guingona joins FPJ: A colossal blunder / After Spain, Philippines? [Summary] => Teofisto Guingona, so the cards said, was a genteel and kind man, a nationalist to the core, a rare politician of unblemished integrity. He was virtually all alone in this niche, spewing Promethean fire in a world of gathering darkness. He was the first prominent public servant to conceptualize and propose the impeachment of then President Joseph Estrada. And I was there in that small gathering at a friend’s house when he lit the initial matchstick that eventually led to Mr. Estrada‚s downfall.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229055 [Title] => A primer on BANGON! [Summary] => It was two gruelling months in the making. But when BANGON! was formally launched Thursday, the blood, sweat and tears poured into the project was well worth it. The welcome by an overflow crowd at the Kalayaan Hall of Club Filipino was uproaringly jubilant to say the least. The BANGON! manifesto was a Picasso frieze of passion and prose, mirroring the agony of a persecuted people that had been driven brutally to the wall for decades. And when finally Tito Guingona, roared out his anger and his vision, BANGON! tumbled into reality like a bomb primed to explode when the time should come. [DatePublished] => 2003-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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