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                    [ArticleID] => 856715
                    [Title] => Lady Gaga wins LennonOno Grant for Peace
                    [Summary] => 

Music superstar Lady Gaga will share a peace prize in memory of John Lennon to honor her work campaigning for equality for gay, lesbian and transgender people.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-06 08:17:39 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 850714 [Title] => Salman Rushdie dismisses latest death threat [Summary] =>

Salman Rushdie is dismissing the latest threat against his life as just talk.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-19 12:53:11 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744747 [Title] => The argumentalist [Summary] =>

In this age of “whatever,” it’s refreshing to read Christopher Hitchens: someone who will pick a fight over just about anything: George Orwell, John Updike, Harry Potter or even whether “F**k off!” is preferable to “F**k you!” (Hitchens leans toward the former, the British variant, which he finds more inclusive and self-reflective than the violent American version.)

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 740457 [Title] => AP Essay: Leaders, once mythic, reduced in death [Summary] =>

It may be true, it may be myth. But in 1967, when Che Guevara faced the Bolivian army sergeant who was about to execute him, history records the legendary revolutionary's final words like this: "Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-24 05:22:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 703501 [Title] => Is Manzilian the new manscaping? [Summary] =>

In a quest for self-improvement, author Christopher Hitchens chronicled his attempts at getting beautified for Vanity Fair, applying veneers, receiving mud masks and getting waxed down there for his magazine column.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134493 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1164470 [AuthorName] => Bea J. Ledesma [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 556670 [Title] => Got delusion? [Summary] =>

Is God Dead?” read the coverline of one of Time magazine’s most controversial and iconic covers. This was 1966: sex (via the Pill) had just been invented, the counter-culture movement was gaining ground and fast, and pop was in full swing from London to Haight, Ashbury in San Francisco.

[DatePublished] => 2010-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135989 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1308998 [AuthorName] => Erwin T. Romulo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361955 [Title] => A medieval format [Summary] =>

It is fitting to discuss the Pope’s recent statements here in Malaysia, a country which is arguably a showpiece for how a country has effectively adapted Islam to modernity. Conversely, it has also made modernity adapt to Islam. It is not taking every modernity hook, line and sinker.

[DatePublished] => 2006-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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