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                    [Title] => Was Lennon right about Christianity?
                    [Summary] => 

Although there is barely any reference to Christianity in Beatles songs, that’s a reflection of the members’ interest/disinterest and an outcome of an unintended backlash.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-30 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289483 [AuthorName] => Edgar O. Cruz [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1351052 [Title] => The Beatles live and alive in Manila [Summary] =>

In the 1970 bestseller, Future Shock, author Alvin Tofler posits that individuals and entire societies may suffer certain psychological states such as a shock from “too much change in too short a period of time.” Sometimes, the shock requires people to run to escape from its negative capabilities.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289483 [AuthorName] => Edgar O. Cruz [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/entertainment/20140728/the-beatles-Manila-concert.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1302612 [Title] => The 10,000-hour rule [Summary] =>

Over the last two weeks, we devoted our column to the so-called debate between “nature and nurture” in sports using the experience of people in other fields like music to highlight certain points.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1299943 [Title] => The 10,000-hour rule [Summary] =>

Last week’s column, “Nature vs. Nurture: Athletes’ Genes” had us jumping into the age-old debate whether vastly superior athletic performance is caused by genetics (genetic freaks, as they are called) or rendered by simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1297230 [Title] => Nature vs Nurture: Athletes’ genes [Summary] =>

Every so often, the phrase, “it’s a sport in which Filipinos can excel”.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135709 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1653011 [AuthorName] => Philip Ella Juico [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1266969 [Title] => Why there’s no ‘official’ Beatles Christmas song [Summary] =>

Beatles songs are not beyond dealing with ordinary themes.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289459 [AuthorName] => Edgar Cruz [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1257012 [Title] => New app chronicles Lennon's sailing trip [Summary] =>

Six months before he died, John Lennon set sail from Newport, R.I., on an ocean adventure to Bermuda that awakened his desire to make music again and is now being chronicled in an electronic format he could not have conceived of.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-15 05:12:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1249266 [AuthorName] => David Bauder [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1247048 [Title] => Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s headline [Summary] =>

If you tell a colleague about a mutual associate undergoing financial woes, you may simply be trying to understand why your troubled friend is not at his best.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133905 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1174371 [AuthorName] => Bong R. Osorio [SectionName] => Lifestyle Business [SectionUrl] => business-life [URL] => http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6620/uz5c.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 925405 [Title] => 50 years of Please, Please Me & The Beatles [Summary] =>

I was reminded of The Beatles last week when I came across a story written by Jody Rosen for Rolling Stone magazine, The Beatles’ Please, Please Me 50th Anniversary. It was about that fateful day of Feb. 11 in 1963.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 851399 [Title] => Going bananas for soft serve fruit [Summary] =>

Pureed frozen fruit probably won't become the next bacon, or even cupcake. It's simply not sexy enough.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-21 09:39:35 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => http://imageshack.us/a/img402/9974/foodsoftserve2thumb.jpg ) ) )
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