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Not even the pope was immune Thursday night as Stephen Colbert cracked one-liners and took digs at luminaries from politics, finance and the media at a Roman Catholic charity dinner in New York City that's perennially packed with big names.

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Allow me to rant. I stopped caring about American Idol long ago, several seasons back, in fact, and now seeing it return for yet another round is like watching those damned George Romero zombies, always lumbering through their paces, no matter how many times you pop a cap in their heads.

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He exudes a non-defensive, even somewhat argumentative, mien. He is totally unapologetic about the contract. But the words don’t match the posture. His answers open up more questions that he started with.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134872 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1532076 [AuthorName] => MY VIEWPOINT By Ricardo V. Puno, Jr. [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 279144 [Title] => Artists and culture workers in anti-graft and corruption drive [Summary] => The first thing we should do is to look into ourselves. Practice honesty and observe integrity. And transmit the same values to our children and immediate members of our families. Then, move on to influencing our neighbors. That’s the most effective way to help.

That was the common formula posited by the various groups which attended the three-day National Commission on Arts and Culture Summit at the Manila Pavilion which ended Wednesday afternoon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136001 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1771372 [AuthorName] => THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232203 [Title] => Exploited women or women who exploit? [Summary] => Last Sunday, during ABS-CBN’s "The Buzz", columnist Mon Tulfo virtually accused former Senator Raul Roco on his face and (in front of his wife) that he beat up his wife Sonia Roco. Of course, Raul denied the allegation and Sonia who was with her husband also denied this accusation. Now isn’t that an opening (which he also wrote in his column, entitled "Roco Uncovered") salvo by Tulfo to mark the beginning of the presidential campaign?
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Not even the pope was immune Thursday night as Stephen Colbert cracked one-liners and took digs at luminaries from politics, finance and the media at a Roman Catholic charity dinner in New York City that's perennially packed with big names.

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Allow me to rant. I stopped caring about American Idol long ago, several seasons back, in fact, and now seeing it return for yet another round is like watching those damned George Romero zombies, always lumbering through their paces, no matter how many times you pop a cap in their heads.

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He exudes a non-defensive, even somewhat argumentative, mien. He is totally unapologetic about the contract. But the words don’t match the posture. His answers open up more questions that he started with.
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That was the common formula posited by the various groups which attended the three-day National Commission on Arts and Culture Summit at the Manila Pavilion which ended Wednesday afternoon.
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