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                    [Title] => Two took to the air, while others slept?
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With malice towards none, the phrase "while others slept" is a very loose metaphorical figure of speech.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 509479 [Title] => Give till it hurts, it'll soothe you [Summary] =>

Storm Ondoy was but a preview of worse catastrophes arising from climate change. Stronger typhoons will hit and ocean waters will rise in the equatorial belt to wipe out entire cities.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441904 [Title] => Any promise gauge, or promise keeper? [Summary] => Lately, a juicy newsbit came out in the wake of Barack Obama’s promise-laden ascendancy to the White House: “Obameter keeps track of Obama campaign promises”. [DatePublished] => 2009-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351620 [Title] => What next, Uncle Sam? - I [Summary] => Many scoffed when Pres. Bush lumped Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as "axis of evil". As later events unfolded, Dubya Bush is an accurate pulse taker. Iraq's Saddam Hussein got Dubya's top priority due to CIA intel-fed blunder on weapons of mass destruction nowhere found later.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240253 [Title] => Another wow! GMA beats Panday in Pulse Asia poll? [Summary] => What do you make of the hot-off-the-press Pulse Asia survey revealing that President Macapagal-Arroyo has just edged out FPJ – by 0.2 percent – in its Ulat ng Bayan survey ending February 16 to 20? GMA got 31.9 versus the 31.7 of Fernando Poe Jr.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238678 [Title] => Those futile talks hit by deep freeze in sub-zero Oslo [Summary] => As we expected – Pessimists Incorporated that I am about that "surrender-type" peace initiative of the GMA Administration – the Oslo peace talks between a government panel and the two overseas Communist chiefs, Joma Sison and ex-Father Luis Jalandoni, have bogged down – even before they really began.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 224717 [Title] => Pinoy on the moon? Suntok sa buwan! [Summary] => Starlight, star bright, how many stars can we see tonight? As kids, how many of us dreamt of becoming astronauts, exploring outer space and galaxies, going to the moon similar to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American astronaut Neil Armstrong? That was one of my childhood dreams, along with winning the first Philippine Olympic gold medal and climbing Mt. Everest in the Himalayas, and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208081 [Title] => Who are the business traitors who smuggled $2 billion out of RP? [Summary] => President Macapagal-Arroyo and her generals must not be suckered into agreeing to a "ceasefire" with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front! Even somebody jet-lagged like yours truly (I blew into town the other day on the outskirts of Typhoon Chedeng) knows this.

But, having just arrived, I don’t know whether GMA and her government might have fallen for the desperate ploy already.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206970 [Title] => ‘Twas a love feat, not a state visit: Dubya stole GMA’s heart away [Summary] => WASHINGTON, DC – If you’ve seen those photographs and TV images of our President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, looking pleased as punch, you can attribute it to the George "Dubya" Bush charm.

If GMA had any whiskers, one could say, watching from the sidelines, that this ole Texas cowboy (and oil man, don’t forget) charmed the whiskers off her.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206686 [Title] => A one-hour time difference; a world away [Summary] => NEW YORK CITY – Arriving in the Big Apple from Mexico City, meaning New York City, the biggest, meanest, rip-roaringest metropolis in the USA (even minus the Twin Towers, whose disappearance creates a still-aching void in the night sky), used to be a wrenching experience, a case of culture shock.

Not any longer. There are now so many Hispanics manning the store, from the courteous immigration official to the Customs inspector who waves you through, without so much as a glance at your luggage.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
DUBYA BUSH
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                    [Title] => Two took to the air, while others slept?
                    [Summary] => 

With malice towards none, the phrase "while others slept" is a very loose metaphorical figure of speech.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 509479 [Title] => Give till it hurts, it'll soothe you [Summary] =>

Storm Ondoy was but a preview of worse catastrophes arising from climate change. Stronger typhoons will hit and ocean waters will rise in the equatorial belt to wipe out entire cities.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 441904 [Title] => Any promise gauge, or promise keeper? [Summary] => Lately, a juicy newsbit came out in the wake of Barack Obama’s promise-laden ascendancy to the White House: “Obameter keeps track of Obama campaign promises”. [DatePublished] => 2009-02-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 351620 [Title] => What next, Uncle Sam? - I [Summary] => Many scoffed when Pres. Bush lumped Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as "axis of evil". As later events unfolded, Dubya Bush is an accurate pulse taker. Iraq's Saddam Hussein got Dubya's top priority due to CIA intel-fed blunder on weapons of mass destruction nowhere found later.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 240253 [Title] => Another wow! GMA beats Panday in Pulse Asia poll? [Summary] => What do you make of the hot-off-the-press Pulse Asia survey revealing that President Macapagal-Arroyo has just edged out FPJ – by 0.2 percent – in its Ulat ng Bayan survey ending February 16 to 20? GMA got 31.9 versus the 31.7 of Fernando Poe Jr.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238678 [Title] => Those futile talks hit by deep freeze in sub-zero Oslo [Summary] => As we expected – Pessimists Incorporated that I am about that "surrender-type" peace initiative of the GMA Administration – the Oslo peace talks between a government panel and the two overseas Communist chiefs, Joma Sison and ex-Father Luis Jalandoni, have bogged down – even before they really began.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 224717 [Title] => Pinoy on the moon? Suntok sa buwan! [Summary] => Starlight, star bright, how many stars can we see tonight? As kids, how many of us dreamt of becoming astronauts, exploring outer space and galaxies, going to the moon similar to Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and American astronaut Neil Armstrong? That was one of my childhood dreams, along with winning the first Philippine Olympic gold medal and climbing Mt. Everest in the Himalayas, and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. [DatePublished] => 2003-10-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804897 [AuthorName] => Wilson Lee Flores [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208081 [Title] => Who are the business traitors who smuggled $2 billion out of RP? [Summary] => President Macapagal-Arroyo and her generals must not be suckered into agreeing to a "ceasefire" with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front! Even somebody jet-lagged like yours truly (I blew into town the other day on the outskirts of Typhoon Chedeng) knows this.

But, having just arrived, I don’t know whether GMA and her government might have fallen for the desperate ploy already.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206970 [Title] => ‘Twas a love feat, not a state visit: Dubya stole GMA’s heart away [Summary] => WASHINGTON, DC – If you’ve seen those photographs and TV images of our President, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, looking pleased as punch, you can attribute it to the George "Dubya" Bush charm.

If GMA had any whiskers, one could say, watching from the sidelines, that this ole Texas cowboy (and oil man, don’t forget) charmed the whiskers off her.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 206686 [Title] => A one-hour time difference; a world away [Summary] => NEW YORK CITY – Arriving in the Big Apple from Mexico City, meaning New York City, the biggest, meanest, rip-roaringest metropolis in the USA (even minus the Twin Towers, whose disappearance creates a still-aching void in the night sky), used to be a wrenching experience, a case of culture shock.

Not any longer. There are now so many Hispanics manning the store, from the courteous immigration official to the Customs inspector who waves you through, without so much as a glance at your luggage.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133172 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1510184 [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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