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                    [Title] => More of the same
                    [Summary] => People shouldn’t be surprised that EDSA II failed to deliver on its promise of change. This society is so resistant to reforms, people have such short memories and lessons from the past are rarely taken to heart. 


Neither people power revolts nor free elections have led to sweeping changes in this society. As yet another presidential election approaches, there are Filipinos who are resigned to the fact that we are in for another political circus and not much else.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 183514 [Title] => Equitable’s Ocampo to testify vs Estrada at Sandigan today [Summary] => Déjà vu.

A dramatic episode in the failed impeachment trial of ousted President Joseph Estrada will be virtually re-enacted at today’s resumption of his trial for plunder before the Sandiganbayan.

Clarissa Ocampo, former senior vice president and trust officer of Equitable PCIBank, will take the witness stand anew to testify that Estrada and the mysterious "Jose Velarde" are one and the same person.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102223 [Title] => Macho no more - WHY AND WHY NOT by Nelson A. Navarro [Summary] => Perish all hopes that President Estrada will ever make good his macho boast of confronting and pulverizing any and all of his uncouth accusers before the Senate impeachment tribunal. Not anytime soon, not ever.

Unless Estrada’s anti-impeachment guru Ernesto Maceda was talking through his hat over the weekend, there will be no such presidential tour-de-force appearance for the simple reason that it can only do Estrada more harm than good.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102140 [Title] => Derailed - WHY AND WHY NOT by Nelson A. Navarro [Summary] => Forget any "second wind" for the endangered Joseph Estrada presidency. Not any time soon, anyway.

Until last Friday’s sensational unmasking of the real "Jose Velarde", Malacañang was confidently peddling a January acquittal scenario. According to the spinmeisters, this would be preceded by some cosmetic changes in the Cabinet before the end of the year. Farther down looms some kind of "soft landing" for the embattled head-of-state.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103199 [Title] => The 'new' Estrada - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

Are we witnessing the reinvention of a "new" Joseph Estrada? [DatePublished] => 2000-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103879 [Title] => Saving Estrada - Why And Why Not [Summary] =>

The Estrada administration has been dealt one black eye after another because its backroom operations have been stinking to high heavens. Instead of covering up for the most hands-off president the country has ever had, the palace crew which works in his name has been bogged down with rank incompetence and pointless turf wars. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1539298 [AuthorName] => Nelson A. navarro [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 103860 [Title] => Can this guy survive in the world of snakes? [Summary] =>

Will new Malacañang chief of staff Aprodicio Lacquian hack it? Will he survive the snake pit? Does he have the political will to ward off all kinds of pressures from all kinds of people, especially the politicians, the barkadas, and the friends? Can he be a friend to all and an enemy to no one?

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Whether Lacquian will reap success as chief of staff will all depend on the answers to these questions. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1189692 [AuthorName] => Art Borjal [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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