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                    [Title] => In a province where three armies reign
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Sitio Melancoly sits on a mountainside half a day’s ride by jeep from Cadiz City in Negros Occidental. NGO leader Mardi Mapa-Suplido arrived well before sundown of Aug. 10 to break the good news. Her Non-Timber Forest Products Task Force had just received a hefty order from the US for placemats that Melancoly women weave out of copious cogon grass. That would mean cash in the pockets of families who have been poor ever since they can remember. Mardi was explaining all this to barrio guides Abit and Marlon Peña when six men with rifles barged in.
                    [DatePublished] => 2006-09-25 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc
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                    [Title] => Hit the ground running
                    [Summary] => Scorned by skeptics from Day 1, the Melo Commission must hit the ground running. At stake is not just the integrity of its individual members or even Malacañang, but the country’s status in the community of nations as a democratic society, notwithstanding our highly-charged politics.

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