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The excellent partnership of The Bellevue Hotels and Resorts (BH&R) bigwigs — chairman Johnny Chan, managing director Patrick Chan and The Bellevue Resort managing director Dustin Chan — and your columnist and event organizer brought together noted personalities from the diplomatic, banking, business and social circles recently.

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“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine

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The beauty of the Filipinos’ smiles will soon be exported abroad.

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After taking stock of the year that was, we can say it has been a rewarding one. We had our share of adversities last year (who didn’t?) but, as a whole, it was marked with both professional and personal triumphs.

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I recently attended the premiere presentation of one of the world’s well-loved Broadway hits — Wicked.

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I am mortified that an alumnus of my UP (University of the Philippines) beloved would do such a shameless and dishonest act as stealing someone else’s photo and submitting it to a contest as his own – and then even preen and gloat as he received the prize for it. And to think that he – Mark Joseph Solis, remember that name – has done it many times before! “No words can express how sorry I am” just won’t cut it; this was not a “regrettable lapse on my judgment” – hey, didn’t someone else claim a “lapse of judgment” in connection with a wiretapped conversation? – since it was not an isolated incident but a repeated, deliberate pattern of fraud.

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Mark Joseph Solis, the student who admitted to stealing photos and submitting them to local and international competitions, has returned his prizes and apologized to the Chilean embassy in Manila.

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Journalists tend to be cynical, jaded (and in this country, often malicious and licentious), the type who find it easier to believe the worst rather than the good about people.

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The college student who won a photography contest with an entry he lifted from someone else may be suspended by his university and face legal action by the organizers.

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CHILEAN AMBASSADOR ROBERTO MAYORGA
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The excellent partnership of The Bellevue Hotels and Resorts (BH&R) bigwigs — chairman Johnny Chan, managing director Patrick Chan and The Bellevue Resort managing director Dustin Chan — and your columnist and event organizer brought together noted personalities from the diplomatic, banking, business and social circles recently.

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“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine

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The beauty of the Filipinos’ smiles will soon be exported abroad.

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After taking stock of the year that was, we can say it has been a rewarding one. We had our share of adversities last year (who didn’t?) but, as a whole, it was marked with both professional and personal triumphs.

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I recently attended the premiere presentation of one of the world’s well-loved Broadway hits — Wicked.

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I am mortified that an alumnus of my UP (University of the Philippines) beloved would do such a shameless and dishonest act as stealing someone else’s photo and submitting it to a contest as his own – and then even preen and gloat as he received the prize for it. And to think that he – Mark Joseph Solis, remember that name – has done it many times before! “No words can express how sorry I am” just won’t cut it; this was not a “regrettable lapse on my judgment” – hey, didn’t someone else claim a “lapse of judgment” in connection with a wiretapped conversation? – since it was not an isolated incident but a repeated, deliberate pattern of fraud.

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Mark Joseph Solis, the student who admitted to stealing photos and submitting them to local and international competitions, has returned his prizes and apologized to the Chilean embassy in Manila.

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Journalists tend to be cynical, jaded (and in this country, often malicious and licentious), the type who find it easier to believe the worst rather than the good about people.

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The college student who won a photography contest with an entry he lifted from someone else may be suspended by his university and face legal action by the organizers.

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