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                    [Title] => Rustica Carpio: Drama is a mirror of life
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“Drama is a mirror of life. It conveys life; it communicates man’s outer and inner expressions; it is man speaking of himself, for himself, to other human beings to share his thoughts, ideas, beliefs, values, longings and aspirations. It is the human being extending arms, mind, and heart, giving meaning to life as events unfold, whether significant or immaterial.”

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-12 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1544899 [AuthorName] => Nenet Galang-Pereña [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1064801 [Title] => Philippine history [Summary] =>

The second of the eight required core courses mandated by CMO 20, series of 2013, is “Readings in Philippine History / Mga Babasahin hinggil sa Kasaysayan ng Pilipinas.”

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1365384 [AuthorName] => Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 844704 [Title] => Something awry at the NCCA [Summary] =>

People who aren’t familiar with the creative process are in command positions at the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA), people who have no track record as cultural workers.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1314981 [AuthorName] => F Sionil Jose [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img689/5029/lif1thumbl.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 704405 [Title] => The revolutionary Rizal in Southeast Asia [Summary] =>

I confess to an appreciative bias for John Nery, author of this impeccable study on the influence of our National Hero in Southeast Asia.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134336 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1314981 [AuthorName] => F Sionil Jose [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 645880 [Title] => Sionil Jose, Austin Coates and Rizal's biography / Other books published [Summary] =>

Several Rizal biographies have been written but Austin Coates’ “Rizal  Filipino Nationalist and Patriot” is the best, declares F. Sionil Jose.

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I sometimes wonder what our national heroes like Rizal and Bonifacio would say to the notion that the days we dedicate to honor their lives should solely be opportunities to provide ourselves with a break.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133925 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1767281 [AuthorName] => Teodoro Kalaw IV [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 536072 [Title] => Rizal's death anniversary [Summary] =>

About 12 years ago one of the better biographers of Jose Rizal passed away. Austin Coates, a British author, wrote one of the very best biographies on our national hero “Rizal, Philippine Nationalist and Martyr”.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 478318 [Title] => A Rizalian solution [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines – “THE COUNTRY IS POOR; IT IS GOING THROUGH A GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS, and everybody points with their fingers to persons who are causing the evil, and yet no one dares to lay their hands on them.”

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1284837 [AuthorName] => Dr. Pablo S. Trillana III [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342670 [Title] => Rizal’s 145th birthday marked [Summary] => National hero Jose Rizal was just an ordinary man who would pick up his pen and write the blues away.

This was what historian and "Rizalista" Pablo Trillana III said of Rizal, whose 145th birth anniversary the nation commemorates today.

"To many Filipinos Dr. Jose Rizal was a superman, a demi-god. People mistake him to have been born a hero, with a charmed and perfect life that was destined from the beginning to achieve greatness," wrote Trillana who, however, said the hero was an ordinary man.
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