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                    [ArticleID] => 616203
                    [Title] => House panel endorses GMA bill on drunk driving
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What she failed to achieve as president, she hopes to accomplish as a lawmaker.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097047 [AuthorName] => Jess Diaz [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 564261 [Title] => A view on the latest poll survey [Summary] =>

The perceptible surge of Sen. Manuel B. Villar in the presidential race has, somehow, been stalled. Better still for the Liberal Party, whose bet is locked in as his closest contender, Villar's new converts, names that would have indicated the start of an otherwise irreversible gathering of his speed to the electoral finish line, have been the very same factors slowing down his momentum.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 547086 [Title] => The drag of "Gibo" [Summary] =>

My young corporate boss, whose identity I intend to keep by just assigning him the name Sir Johnvic, is a car racing enthusiast.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 538728 [Title] => A cause my one vote will support [Summary] =>

In school, we are taught how our government works. Among the things we learn is that the three departments in our constitutional structure namely the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary are co-equal and co-independent, no matter how we read the original discourse of Montesquieu on the subject.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 525169 [Title] => At the Vatican with my friend the ambassador [Summary] =>

“Not even in my wildest dreams” was the reaction of Mercedes Arrastia Tuason, the new Philippine Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Holy See, with concurrent jurisdiction over the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, when she was about to present her credentials to his Holiness Benedict XVI at Castel Gandolfo, the summer palace of the Pope outside Rome last month.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1224717 [AuthorName] => Ching de las Alas Montinola [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7900/wikcoverthumb.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 502539 [Title] => Divergence of political strategies [Summary] =>

The recent developments in the political scene point to a 2010 presidential election being conducted in a bevy of contrasts.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 491182 [Title] => On my phone the president is damned [Summary] =>

I seem to perceive personally an unmistakable difference in the way we treat a past and a present leader.

[DatePublished] => 2009-07-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 474991 [Title] => The parallelism between some congressmen and Nazis [Summary] =>

I could not believe that the members of the majority in the House of Representatives, steep in the understanding of a bicameral system of government, shamelessly passed the resolution constituting themselves as a constituent assembly for the end objective of proposing amendments to the constitution.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 453371 [Title] => Public officials told: Don't call yourselves "Honorable" [Summary] =>

CEBU, Philippines – It is improper for a public official to attach the title of courtesy “Honorable” to their names because it should be the public that should make the reference to the official, the Department of Foreign Affairs yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 448636 [Title] => Fealty to the Constitution [Summary] => MANILA, Philippines - Assembled here today in “hallowed ground” are soldiers, heroes, political leaders, captains of business and industry; entrepreneurs, professionals; even men of the cloth, the whole spectrum of Philippine society is captured in this field. [DatePublished] => 2009-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1515954 [AuthorName] => Message of Defense Secretary GILBERT C. TEODORO/ Philippine Military Academy Alumni Homecoming 2009/ [SectionName] => Letters to the Editor [SectionUrl] => letters-to-the-editor [URL] => ) ) )
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