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                    [Title] => When 2 freedom icons met
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When former President Corazon Aquino and her daughters Ballsy Cruz and Pinky Abellada met President Nelson Mandela in Pretoria in August 1996, the anti-apartheid revolutionary leader told Cruz she was very lucky.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img202/797/uebu.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 75743 [Title] => SONA – another song  with bitter refrains [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 66745 [Title] => Christmas in June [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 389106 [Title] => Triple whammy! [Summary] => I think GMA should fire her executive staff who do not brief her properly before each speaking engagement or she should start changing her ways. Her protocol officers are very strict and seem to be in control of her every move but they fail to do the most important part of their job which is to brief the President. Although, one can speculate that it may also be the President’s fault for not listening to her staff or not giving them a chance to do their job.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349588 [Title] => Magandang SONA. Sana [Summary] => WISH LIST daw ang litanya ng mga grandiyosong proyekto ni Presidente Arroyo sa kanyang SONA nung Lunes, ani Sen. Miriam Santiago. Kaalyado man siya ng Pangulo, mukhang may duda ang Senadora. Pero totoo. Iyan ang wish list ng buong sambayanan na sana’y magkatotoo sa kabila ng kabi-kabilang pagbatikos ng mga kaaalit sa pulitika ng Pangulo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328030 [Title] => Sino si Forward Ko? [Summary] => ANG 168 Mall ay bantog sa mura nitong mga paninda. Mga appliances, home decor items, damit, sapatos at kung anu-ano pa. Kaya pala mura, puro smuggled items ang binebenta!

Ni-raid at ipinasara kamakailan ng mga operatiba ng pamahalaan ang 168 dahil hindi raw nagbabayad ng buwis at maraming mga nagtitinda na illegal aliens. Matagal na ang operasyon ng mall na iyan. Bakit ngayon lang nilusob matapos magpasasa ng malaking kita ang mga spurious traders diyan? Bakit po BoC Commissioner Napoleon Morales?
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308305 [Title] => Media na naman ang sinisi [Summary] => "PISTING yawa" media na naman ang sinisi sa pagbulusok ng rating ni President Gloria. "Media hype" daw ang dahilan kung bakit maraming Pinoy ang gustong umalis na sa puwesto ang Pangulo.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 307043 [Title] => Keeping the cake and eating it too [Summary] => Whether GMA admits it or not, it was former prexy FVR who came to her rescue as a knight in shining armor when her pedestal was crucially tottering and ready to fall.

From FVR's later accounts, the saving scenario of a shift to a parliamentary system he outlined to take effect in mid-2006, was his spontaneous last card to shore GMA from toppling over. In short, FVR had not well thought it out his game plan, except to divert the emerging mob demand for GMA's ouster.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302303 [Title] => GMA hinamon ni Nene ng debate sa CPR [Summary] => Hinamon kahapon ni Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. si Pangulong Arroyo sa isang pampublikong debate at ang kanilang pag-uusapan ay ang calibrated preemptive response (CPR).

"Mrs. President, let’s debate your policy of violent dispersals of people’s demonstrations vs corruption and your defense of the government’s blunders with mass media coverage in a neutral venue so the people will know the truth. Other details are negotiable" paghahamon ni Sen. Pimentel.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294692 [Title] => Paging PGMA! [Summary] => Baka naman isang tao na lang ang hinihintay ng POC at BAP para pumagitna sa kanila at nang ma-solve na ang problemang kinakaharap ng Phil. Basketball sa kasalukuyan. Pareho kasing ayaw magpatalo ng dalawang ito kaya nananatili ang suspension natin sa FIBA at nananatili rin ang status natin na di tayo puedeng sumali sa darating na SEA Games.

Unless may milagrong mang-yayari sa dalawang yan the soonest possible time, malamang na malamang na, hindi tayo ma-kakasali sa basketball sa SEA Games.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135863 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1592023 [AuthorName] => Nap Gutierrez [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) ) )
MRS. PRESIDENT
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                    [Title] => When 2 freedom icons met
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When former President Corazon Aquino and her daughters Ballsy Cruz and Pinky Abellada met President Nelson Mandela in Pretoria in August 1996, the anti-apartheid revolutionary leader told Cruz she was very lucky.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135221 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1391760 [AuthorName] => Joanne Rae M. Ramirez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img202/797/uebu.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 75743 [Title] => SONA – another song  with bitter refrains [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 66745 [Title] => Christmas in June [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-06-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 389106 [Title] => Triple whammy! [Summary] => I think GMA should fire her executive staff who do not brief her properly before each speaking engagement or she should start changing her ways. Her protocol officers are very strict and seem to be in control of her every move but they fail to do the most important part of their job which is to brief the President. Although, one can speculate that it may also be the President’s fault for not listening to her staff or not giving them a chance to do their job.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133536 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804832 [AuthorName] => Sara Soliven De Guzman [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 349588 [Title] => Magandang SONA. Sana [Summary] => WISH LIST daw ang litanya ng mga grandiyosong proyekto ni Presidente Arroyo sa kanyang SONA nung Lunes, ani Sen. Miriam Santiago. Kaalyado man siya ng Pangulo, mukhang may duda ang Senadora. Pero totoo. Iyan ang wish list ng buong sambayanan na sana’y magkatotoo sa kabila ng kabi-kabilang pagbatikos ng mga kaaalit sa pulitika ng Pangulo.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328030 [Title] => Sino si Forward Ko? [Summary] => ANG 168 Mall ay bantog sa mura nitong mga paninda. Mga appliances, home decor items, damit, sapatos at kung anu-ano pa. Kaya pala mura, puro smuggled items ang binebenta!

Ni-raid at ipinasara kamakailan ng mga operatiba ng pamahalaan ang 168 dahil hindi raw nagbabayad ng buwis at maraming mga nagtitinda na illegal aliens. Matagal na ang operasyon ng mall na iyan. Bakit ngayon lang nilusob matapos magpasasa ng malaking kita ang mga spurious traders diyan? Bakit po BoC Commissioner Napoleon Morales?
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 308305 [Title] => Media na naman ang sinisi [Summary] => "PISTING yawa" media na naman ang sinisi sa pagbulusok ng rating ni President Gloria. "Media hype" daw ang dahilan kung bakit maraming Pinoy ang gustong umalis na sa puwesto ang Pangulo.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133395 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804793 [AuthorName] => Al G. Pedroche [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 307043 [Title] => Keeping the cake and eating it too [Summary] => Whether GMA admits it or not, it was former prexy FVR who came to her rescue as a knight in shining armor when her pedestal was crucially tottering and ready to fall.

From FVR's later accounts, the saving scenario of a shift to a parliamentary system he outlined to take effect in mid-2006, was his spontaneous last card to shore GMA from toppling over. In short, FVR had not well thought it out his game plan, except to divert the emerging mob demand for GMA's ouster.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302303 [Title] => GMA hinamon ni Nene ng debate sa CPR [Summary] => Hinamon kahapon ni Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. si Pangulong Arroyo sa isang pampublikong debate at ang kanilang pag-uusapan ay ang calibrated preemptive response (CPR).

"Mrs. President, let’s debate your policy of violent dispersals of people’s demonstrations vs corruption and your defense of the government’s blunders with mass media coverage in a neutral venue so the people will know the truth. Other details are negotiable" paghahamon ni Sen. Pimentel.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294692 [Title] => Paging PGMA! [Summary] => Baka naman isang tao na lang ang hinihintay ng POC at BAP para pumagitna sa kanila at nang ma-solve na ang problemang kinakaharap ng Phil. Basketball sa kasalukuyan. Pareho kasing ayaw magpatalo ng dalawang ito kaya nananatili ang suspension natin sa FIBA at nananatili rin ang status natin na di tayo puedeng sumali sa darating na SEA Games.

Unless may milagrong mang-yayari sa dalawang yan the soonest possible time, malamang na malamang na, hindi tayo ma-kakasali sa basketball sa SEA Games.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135863 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1592023 [AuthorName] => Nap Gutierrez [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) ) )
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