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                    [Title] => In elections, jobless trend matters more than rate
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Unemployment is higher than it's been going into any election year since World War II.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-08 10:02:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 726107 [Title] => New book shows another side to Jackie Kennedy [Summary] =>

It's a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-12 13:20:32 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 698371 [Title] => Surprise, surprise! [Summary] =>

“Driver Hangs Self After Spat with Wife” — Headline. He couldn’t wait for the passage of the Divorce Law?

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134303 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431352 [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 408901 [Title] => GLOBAL NEWS: McCain targets liberals in sharpened stump speech [Summary] =>

ST. CHARLES (AP) – Republican John McCain and his supporters yesterday branded Democrat Barack ...

[DatePublished] => 2008-10-21 05:53:48 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 76205 [Title] => Teofisto Guingona writes his memoirs [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 2579 [Title] => Union Bank to revise income target upward [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378895 [Title] => Human empathy in a business leader [Summary] => To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. If one finds himself a leader at one point of his life, he must bear in mind that he cannot be just unless he is kind."

This is a quotation from Adlai Stevenson, an American statesman who was known as "the great man who never made it to the presidency of the United States." After almost 19 years in government, I find myself firmly agreeing with Stevenson.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1352904 [AuthorName] => HINDSIGHT By Josefina T. Lichauco [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374563 [Title] => Why there's much sound and fury about the Summit [Summary] => The Asean Summit has withstood the storm whipped up by the critics. But not the real storm they call Seniang.
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A key police officer was right when he said: "We can stop the terrorists but we can't stop nature."
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The 12th Asean Summit has spawned a lot of problems. [DatePublished] => 2006-12-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134303 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431352 [AuthorName] => Juanito V. Jabat   [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234877 [Title] => Invisible essentials [Summary] => In the course of writing last week’s piece, I had to go to Google to look up the exact words of the "Desiderata" – everyone’s favorite bit of ’60s wisdom (aside from the now-hoary "What is essential is invisible to the eye" from The Little Prince, which even Sen. Nene Pimentel was quoting with a straight face on TV last week in defense of FPJ’s invisible essentials, and Kahlil Gibran).
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 226726 [Title] => Rejected [Summary] => He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. – John 1:11

Rejection hurts. When candidate Adlai Stevenson conceded the US presidential election in 1952, he said he felt like a grown man who had just stubbed his toe. He added, "It hurts too much to laugh, but I’m too old to cry."
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) ) )
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