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Last Tuesday’s and today’s columns were a two-part essay on poverty; in particular, an attempt to understand its origin from an anthropological context, vis a vis the role of government in the development of poverty.
Tuesday’s column:
Poverty and private property
Poverty is not a modern-day phenomenon. Of course, that is not the same as saying that poverty [...]
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This is a true story.
There’s this girl, a high school junior, whom I’ll call Anita. She was a candidate for Vice President in the student government and she won by a slim two-vote victory. She won. There was no doubt about that. There were no accusations of cheating or anything. As far as the students [...]
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In an earlier entry about “pikot”, Jon commented:
My wife sometimes asked me if I would’ve married her had she been a fling or a one-night stand. My answer was “of course not!”
Marriage is reserved for people worth marrying. Anything less is a broken family in the making.
I asked him to define what he meant by [...]
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(Today’s column)
Every three years, my husband’s eldest brother, his wife and two sons spend three weeks in the Philippines. He and his wife have been living in a suburb of Chicago for over 20 years and both of their sons were born and raised there. They arrived over a week ago and, last Sunday, we [...]
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I was reading the case of Danielle (via Dooce), now called Dani, and please go read about this mind-blowing case of child neglect, about a feral child adopted by a couple with a young son. I am simply amazed at the care that the adoptive parents are giving her. Part of me says the article [...]
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(Today’s column)
We had our occasional red meat last Sunday. We really wanted steaks and mashed potatoes but S&R ran out of rib eye steaks so my husband bought pork loin instead. Then, he cooked tequila porkloin, a beloved dish from Tucker Shaw’s “Gentlemen, Start Your Ovens: Killer Recipes for Guys”.
Sunday in our house is Dad’s [...]
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At 10.30 a.m. today, one of the house helpers came up to my study to tell me that we had no more rice to cook for lunch. Wow, and I was hoping for a leisurely day. We had a huge bowl of leftover stir fried beef and vegetables that I cooked for the kids’ packed [...]
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My current desk editor (she’s my third) in Manila Standard Today also writes an op-ed column. In her column published a month ago, she wrote her thoughts after seeing The Other Boleyn Girl. As to what led me to that particular column, well, I was digging through the archives looking for Emil Jurado’s column lambasting [...]
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While watching the trailer of the film “Mamma Mia!” on television a couple of nights ago, there ensued a discussion as to whether the lead star is one of the three witches in the now-defunct TV series “Charmed.” My older daughter Sam said that wasn’t her. Rather, she’s one of the girls in the supporting [...]
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When the civil case filed by the former domestic helper of Lauro Baja Jr. against the ex-Ambassador to the United Nations hit the headlines, I was a hundred and ten percent certain that three extremist camps would make themselves visible, each taking a different stand as to which party is guilty and which is innocent.
Those [...]
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