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Under the presidency of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva of the Workers Party, Brazil’s economy grew phenomenally, with vast well-developed agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors topping all South American countries.

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For a President often criticized for doing nothing, with a derisive term even coined for it, there are some undeniable feats in the past three years.

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Our senators appear to be the target both of pressure from and emotional manipulation by defenders of and apologists of the controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT).

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Vancouver is a city of film festivals and the residents love going to the cinema, patronizing mindless shopping mall movies from America with third world countries in mind and illiterate Americans but also art house features to cinematheque retrospectives/ revivals/restoration of classics.

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I confess that when I first saw the May 17 picture of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joining his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with raised arms — after their signing of a putative deal to defuse the crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program...

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Technology solutions giant IBM has opened its second Global Delivery Center (GDC) in the Philippines, in Cebu, taking advantage of the province’s abundant supply of high-value Information Technology (IT) talents.

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He is the Pele of politics, knighted the "most popular politician on Earth" by another contender for the title — Barack Obama.

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Why?

The answer is another question: What would you expect after six years of Fernando Poe Jr. followed by six years of vice presidential shoo-in Noli de Castro? There’s disagreement on who will succeed De Castro, but for now the betting seems to be on another actor, Bong Revilla, who’s running for the Senate based on his record in local government and in playing cat and mouse with the film pirates of Quiapo and Greenhills. [DatePublished] => 2004-03-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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For a President often criticized for doing nothing, with a derisive term even coined for it, there are some undeniable feats in the past three years.

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Our senators appear to be the target both of pressure from and emotional manipulation by defenders of and apologists of the controversial P21-billion conditional cash transfer (CCT).

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I confess that when I first saw the May 17 picture of Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, joining his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with raised arms — after their signing of a putative deal to defuse the crisis over Iran’s nuclear weapons program...

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Technology solutions giant IBM has opened its second Global Delivery Center (GDC) in the Philippines, in Cebu, taking advantage of the province’s abundant supply of high-value Information Technology (IT) talents.

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He is the Pele of politics, knighted the "most popular politician on Earth" by another contender for the title — Barack Obama.

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