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                    [Title] => So we muddle along (2)/Susan Roces won’t bite
                    [Summary] => In a previous column, we cried uncle. We vacated our ringside seat where we surveilled all the follies of our society and declared outright we had committed even the more egregious folly of predicting a social volcano would erupt quite soon. We admitted embarrassingly, of course, we were wrong. And that the Philippines would just go back to "muddling along", meaning we would remain a standstill society, not giving a hoot at all if we had any direction or not, if we were headed for the historical scrap heap or not. 


                    [DatePublished] => 2005-04-18 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno
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                    [Title] => Kick out the scoundrels / GMA playing with truth / Japan, China gouge-out
                    [Summary] => Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they practise to deceive, was what we virtually said when the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) embraced Burma as a full member in the early 90s. This columnist sputtered and angrily questioned that membership. I even personally confronted then President Fidel Ramos about it. His lame excuse  was that the Burmese leadership  of rogue generals would eventually relent and reform, and that letting them in instead of treating them like a pariah would be good for the region.


That was a colossal blunder.


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                    [Title] => Just send Takano home to Tokyo so he can sleep
                    [Summary] => Why bother to continue to agonize over Japanese Ambassador Kohito Takano’s nasty remarks to the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of the Philippines about how the Philippines is such an unsafe place he couldn’t even get to sleep for worry, et cetera?


Sure we were insulted. True, diplomats aren’t supposed to badmouth the host country to which they’re assigned. Admittedly, some Filipinos themselves can’t sleep either for fear of the (to quote Takano-san) "unstable peace and order situation in the country".


                    [DatePublished] => 2003-06-01 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133172
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                    [AuthorName] => Max V. Soliven
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                    [Title] => The US and GMA / Malay’s grain of salt
                    [Summary] => While President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dances ecstatically under a rain of White House adulation, it’s time we all assessed the historic import of her state visit. We’re all taken in by the hoopla, the visual magic, the fulsome US promises, the roseate mists of welcome. As a result, there is now the widening belief GMA with US support will run for the presidency  in 2004. I don’t want to be a spoilsport but America is a past master at this  sort of thing.
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So we muddle along (2)/Susan Roces won’t bite

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | April 18, 2005 - 12:00am

In a previous column, we cried uncle. We vacated our ringside seat where we surveilled all the follies of our society and declared outright we had committed even the more egregious folly of predicting a social volcano...

Opinion

Kick out the scoundrels / GMA playing with truth / Japan, China gouge-out

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | April 13, 2005 - 12:00am

Oh what a tangled web they weave when first they practise to deceive, was what we virtually said when the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) embraced Burma as a full member in the early 90s. This columnist...

Opinion

Just send Takano home to Tokyo so he can sleep

By BY THE WAY | By Max V. Soliven | June 1, 2003 - 12:00am

Why bother to continue to agonize over Japanese Ambassador Kohito Takano’s nasty remarks to the Foreign Correspondents’ Association of the Philippines about how the Philippines is such an unsafe place he...

Opinion

The US and GMA / Malay’s grain of salt

By HERE'S THE SCORE | By Teodoro C. Benigno | May 23, 2003 - 12:00am

While President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo dances ecstatically under a rain of White House adulation, it’s time we all assessed the historic import of her state visit. We’re all taken in by the hoopla, the...

Opinion