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Leandro Leviste
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Where charity begins at home
by Leandro Leviste - October 29, 2010 - 12:00am
They are the unsung heroes of Metro Manila’s elite private schools — the custodians, gardeners, canteen ladies and security guards who represent each school’s life and blood.
An ode to standardized tests
by Leandro Leviste - September 17, 2010 - 12:00am
There is something beautiful about standardized tests.
Land of boxers, dictators and hostage takers
by Leandro Leviste - August 27, 2010 - 12:00am
The Philippines is a collection of islands in a sleepy corner of the world famous for Imelda Marcos’s shoe collection, Manny Pacquiao, the Maguindanao Massacre and, now, the Quirino Grandstand hostage cri...
Flying like a communist
by Leandro Leviste - August 20, 2010 - 12:00am
It’s not a question that comes up often, but it’s an interesting one nonetheless: How do communists fly?
Flying like a nationalist
by Leandro Leviste - August 13, 2010 - 12:00am
The recent crisis surrounding Philippine Airlines and the government’s reaction to it got me thinking: we see travel simply as a way to get from point A to B, yet there’s got to be more to its political...
Handballs, politics and African spirit at the FIFA World Cup
by Leandro Leviste - July 9, 2010 - 12:00am
It could have been the shot heard around the world, like the bullet bound for John F. Kennedy or the one that killed Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and set off the First World War.
Helping others through the Net
by Leandro Leviste - January 8, 2010 - 12:00am
What often keeps us from helping others is that we simply don’t know how. At least not without packing our bags, relocating to a remote rural community and starting a new career as part of an NGO.
The Apathetic Decade
by Leandro Leviste - January 1, 2010 - 12:00am
By most accounts, the last decade was the perfect time to grow up.
The perennial evacuation center
by Leandro Leviste - October 30, 2009 - 12:00am
A lot has been said about how typhoons Ondoy, Pepeng and Ramil have revealed the best in us. Overnight, Filipinos mobilized to help those in need.
The eternal President of the Republic
by Leandro Leviste - August 7, 2009 - 12:00am
When Jimmy Carter turned over the US presidency to his successor, Ronald Reagan, he announced that “in a few days, I will lay down my official responsibilities in this office — to take up once more the...
Beyond black and white
by Leandro Leviste - March 20, 2009 - 12:00am
Those born in today’s West were born a few generations too late. The majesty of being one of the human race’s finest has been replaced by the shame of having descended from those who once believed...
How I learned to love the bomb
by Leandro Leviste - February 27, 2009 - 12:00am
We have lived a fragile existence since 1945. Images of entire Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, being engulfed by mushroom clouds rising high into the stratosphere have shown us what it means to live in a...
Now it's showtime
by Leandro Leviste - January 23, 2009 - 12:00am
The holiday season didn’t really end until this week.
How do you measure a tragedy?
by Leandro Leviste - December 12, 2008 - 12:00am
What makes one tragedy worse than another — how do you even measure it?
The president who wanted to be a celebrity
by Leandro Leviste - December 5, 2008 - 12:00am
You’d think that world leaders would be a bit more mature. But in between flashy international summits and press conferences packed with reporters, the world’s presidents and prime ministers have one...
The triumph of idealism
by Leandro Leviste - November 14, 2008 - 12:00am
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a Hollywood classic from 1939 about Jefferson Smith, an idealistic (though naïve) Washington outsider who becomes senator through a series of improbable events.
Barack Obama's new job
by Leandro Leviste - October 31, 2008 - 12:00am
We always knew that 2008 would be a historic year. Next week is going to be the climax to the most exciting US election ...
Broken news
by Leandro Leviste - October 24, 2008 - 12:00am
An ad for HARDTalk, an interview show on the BBC, is set in the African wilderness, where lions, cheetahs and rhinos spar ...
Rapping for a revolution
by Leandro Leviste - August 15, 2008 - 12:00am
Rapping is a great way to get a message across. From Paris to Palestine, hip-hop has been the voice of disgruntled youth all over the world. Chuck D, one of the pillars of political rap, has called it “the...
How to ‘Bush-bash’
by Leandro Leviste - July 25, 2008 - 12:00am
Conventional wisdom tells us that reading up on current affairs gives us the tools we need to make small talk. Though it seems report after report of suicide bombings and America’s misadventures in Iraq don’t...
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