Next time, Manny Pacquiao should not be wary of a lucky punch from his opponent. He should be wary of a lucky push.
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The referee has apologized to Manny for calling Shane Mosley’s push a punch. But what was done cannot be undone. It’s like cracking an egg.
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Three men in Aurora Province were arrested for allegedly digging up and exhuming the rotten corpse of a pretty teenage girl and allegedly raped her. Oh, my goodness! These days, even the dead are not safe from rapists.
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But this is not a rarity. Necrophilia or the act of having erotic attraction to corpses is still practiced in many parts of the uncivilized world. “That’s why,” says Noy Temyong, “this thing called rape will always be here unless, instead of passing the RH Bill, the lawmakers cook up a bill promoting erectile dysfunction.”
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I did not know the reason why the US gave Osama bin Laden a sea burial until I read in Wilson Lee Flores’ interview with Maria Ressa, the topnotch US-educated Pinay journalist specializing in Asian affairs (PhilStar, 5/8/11).
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Maria Ressa said the sea burial was done to prevent bin Laden’s tomb from being a potential rallying point by the Muslim terrorists on the ground. A US official told Ms. Ressa this.
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Maria Ressa said she agreed with US President Obama’s decision not to release the photo of Osama bin Laden’s body. The picture, she said, can be used by radicals to inflame anger against America and her allies including the PHL.
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Maria Ressa, by way of backgrounder, is a “brilliant” (to use Wilson Flores’ word) former CNN correspondent and ABS-CBN news head. She is the author of the authoritative book “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Queda.”
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E-mail from Justina Alimurong of Misamis Oriental: “Manny Pacquiao has already billions of pesos to his name. Would his constituents in Sarangani be asking too much if they ask their congressman-boxer some millions for a hospital to serve the poor and sickly people in his constituency?”