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                    [ArticleID] => 638701
                    [Title] => Christmas is whatever we make it
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My wife and I had to take our son and daughter to the grocery separately the other day as they wanted to buy simple treats for their school bus’ Kris Kringle.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134560 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1777366 [AuthorName] => Tony Montemayor [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 534279 [Title] => Merry Pasko [Summary] =>

I have lived in Columbus, Ohio since 1979 but I am not embarrassed to say here that my road to a “world of a merry Christmas” is still paved with mixed emotions every year.  There is no doubt at all I genuinely love my American Christmas, simply because my loved ones are here with me. Yet, pictures of happy Philippine Christmases in the past haunt me every year.  I long for that classic, quiet and unadulterated Christmas holiness permeating the provincial air.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-21 09:20:13 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1125048 [AuthorName] => Andy Quisumbing [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 533549 [Title] => Mexico's Christmas gifts to the Philippines [Summary] =>

We have many old Christmas symbols. Probably the oldest is the Nativity scene, known by its Spanish name belen, or Bethlehem.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210786 [Title] => China: Save the world? [Summary] => Hardly ten years ago, we wrote a series of eight columns titled History’s magic moment: Shift from West to Asia. And we emphasized the shift would bring up China as the world’s eventual economic superpower in the 21st century to emulate Britain’s ascendancy in the 19th century, the United States in the 20th century. Our first paragraph read thusly: "Suddenly, Asia. Suddenly, China. Suddenly, a universe turning on its axis. [DatePublished] => 2003-06-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134313 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1204555 [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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