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We haven’t even convincingly answered the question What does one use in iPad for? and yet the world is already exploding with a bevy of touch screen “tablet computers” that hope to grab a piece of this lucrative market. Notable among them is the Motorola Xoom. There are lots of reviews about the hardware and…
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In her article “Between Sensationalism and Censure†(Philippine Journalism Review, April 2002, pages 35-37), Diana Mendoza observed how the bizarreness of Filipinos’ regard for sexuality is reflected in Philippine cinema. Her observations are gleaned from among others, comments made by sociology professor Michael Tan of the University of the Philippines in the Sixth International congress…
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After reading a quick note on the ARCHN blog that suggested the long-awaited movie adaptation of Ayn Rand’s pedestrian opus Atlas Shrugged is proving to be something a bit less than a runaway box office hit, I decided I’d better take a look at what the critics were saying about it. The following are some…
According to a brief article late Friday on the Manila Bulletin’s website, President Aquino has rejected the call from leftist groups led by the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) to certify as urgent HB 3745 and HB 3746, which would mandate an across-the-board P125 wage hike as a response to rising fuel and commodity prices. The…
In many articles all over the part of the Net I am most familiar with, there are many calls to reflect on the real “meaning” of Easter season — that is, presumably, the Catholic meaning of Easter which revolves around the “sacrifice” of Jesus Christ to redeem our sad lot of Adam’s sin. At the…
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The dawn of the space age, the height of the Cold War, the assassination of JFK, and a childlike self-confidence in the midst of an unprecedented period of prosperity that was never to be seen again in America — how much more exciting and interesting can the 1960’s be? Hit television series Mad Men captures…
Milton Friedman was a well-known American economist, a proponent of an economic philosophy that is growing in popularity in this country. In practice, it works something like this: Need a real-life example? Do mortgage-backed securities ring a bell? Or for a more locally-relevant example, the price of fuel, which the oil companies will swear up…
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Money matters. Indeed it does. How to make it, how to manage it when you get it, and how to spend it when you have too much of it. This is what this section, Money Talks, will be all about. We have always asserted that money does flow into the Philippines. But it simply is…
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