Friday, November 20, 2009
Opinion
Could we have avoided the massacre at Fort Hood? This tragedy should have come as no surprise to those around Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan. He has never kept his sentiments secret. He had been “belligerent” in medical school, had “argued passionately with patients” about the Iraq war, kept his obviously Middle Eastern- sounding name, prayed at the mosque in uniform, and vociferously been protesting his planned deployment to Afghanistan, among many things. The FBI now reports t...
MANILA- Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao stands to earn tens of millions of dollars in endorsements as firms at home and abroad rush to link themselves with the charismatic champion, observers say.
The nation celebrated on Sunday when Pacquiao, 30, took the World Boxing Organisation welterweight title by stopping Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, becoming the first fighter to win seven world titles in seven weight classes.
"For sure, he is going to get more offers for commercial endorsements. It...
(Fourth in a series on Filipino-Chinese taipans)
"To improve the Philippine situation, fix basic education first."
This statement has already become his mantra in speeches he has made all over the country. It was Washington Sycip who together with officials of Harvard, Ateneo, University of the Philippines and De La Salle cooperated to establish AIM – a leading management institution known not only in Asia but the world over.
At 87 years of age, o...
From my recollections of visits to Hawaii, the 50th state, tourist crowds would go in droves to the USS Arizona Memorial and its immediate location invariably described as the ”giant” Pearl Harbor Naval Station near Honolulu.
Six decades and eight years ago, a reminder from the annals of history tells us how that very same naval station received the weightiest assault from the Japanese Imperial Army on December 7, 1941.
I haven’t been to Hawaii latel...
Sen. Noynoy Aquino leads in all the presidential polls that have been taken in the Philippines in the last month, receiving more preferential votes than all his opponents combined. But before his supporters can start planning a yellow-themed celebration in May of 2010, there are still formidable obstacles standing in his way, and they are not Manny Villar, Erap Estrada or Gibo Teodoro.
The first obstacle is the P7.7-B automated electronic voting machine system contract that the Commissio...
The big fight is this weekend. And if you’d rather have 100 people in your Daly City garage watching the fight than going to Vegas, I can’t blame you. (Hey, doesn’t Pacquiao-Cotto sound like some kind of Filipino gourmet dish at the local point-point joint).
It should be a gourmet treat for boxing fans, as Manny Pacquiao attempts to become the first fighter in history to win world championship titles in seven different weight classes.
And now I have no doubts that Pacqui...
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