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                    [Title] => RP pullout from Iraq no surety vs terrorists
                    [Summary] => Filipino Christians and Muslims united in supplication Saturday for the life of Angelo de la Cruz. Power of prayer brought quick national relief. Angelo’s Iraqi abductors delayed his beheading with their new deadline for RP to recall its peace-keeping forces. But after the last amen also came quick recriminations. "Angelo’s blood will be on President Arroyo’s hands if she doesn’t comply," cried a militant at a Manila vigil for the compatriot.
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                    [Title] => Power to appoint – and disappoint
                    [Summary] => And so the jockeying for Cabinet posts has begun. Joey Lina is out, Angelo Reyes is in as interior secretary. At the energy, finance and press departments there are murmurs of changes or musical chairs. Big business is asking for retention of BIR and Customs chiefs Guillermo Parayno and Antonio Bernardo, and the return of Isidro Camacho in finance. Signature drives are ongoing for retention as well of Ignacio Bunye as presidential spokesman, Merceditas Gutierrez at justice, and Jose Ponce in agrarian reform. A reelected congressman of Cebu is lobbying for the tourism post of Obet Pagdanganan.
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                    [Title] => Merry-go-round of popular names
                    [Summary] => Ideally an election is a tug-o’-war of platforms. In the Philippines it is a merry-go-round of personalities. And personalities are bound to clash. So from the two main forces contesting the May election leaked gigglers of news yesterday, the eve of the deadline for filing candidacies:

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From the much-ballyhooed crack agency escaped last week Chinese drug lord Henry Tan. A report of how it happened shows sloppy learning.
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I speak of persons who advised or cooked up such enviable contract to begin with. I believe it only reasonable to look at the lawyers of Piatco.
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                    [Summary] => And so the jockeying for Cabinet posts has begun. Joey Lina is out, Angelo Reyes is in as interior secretary. At the energy, finance and press departments there are murmurs of changes or musical chairs. Big business is asking for retention of BIR and Customs chiefs Guillermo Parayno and Antonio Bernardo, and the return of Isidro Camacho in finance. Signature drives are ongoing for retention as well of Ignacio Bunye as presidential spokesman, Merceditas Gutierrez at justice, and Jose Ponce in agrarian reform. A reelected congressman of Cebu is lobbying for the tourism post of Obet Pagdanganan.
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                    [Summary] => Ideally an election is a tug-o’-war of platforms. In the Philippines it is a merry-go-round of personalities. And personalities are bound to clash. So from the two main forces contesting the May election leaked gigglers of news yesterday, the eve of the deadline for filing candidacies:

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From the much-ballyhooed crack agency escaped last week Chinese drug lord Henry Tan. A report of how it happened shows sloppy learning.
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I speak of persons who advised or cooked up such enviable contract to begin with. I believe it only reasonable to look at the lawyers of Piatco.
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