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                    [Title] => To P-Noy gov’t: Beware of ruinous Thatcher policies
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With her death last Monday at 87, Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s only woman prime minister  in office for a record 11 years (1979-1990)  has re-stoked the debate over her legacy, both positive and negative, that continues to divide British society.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 778332 [Title] => US Special Forces want wider global operations [Summary] =>

Last Thursday I received an emailed letter from an Australian who was in Manila last February 4 and read my column piece that day, about the new US defense plan calling for expanded American role and military presence in the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 725313 [Title] => Winners and losers [Summary] =>

In my last two columns I wrote about the call of US billionaire-investor Warren Buffet to tax the rich more, and about efforts to create more jobs in the United States by reviving manufacturing that uses advanced technology.

[DatePublished] => 2011-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 677032 [Title] => TEPCO announces plan to end Japan nuclear crisis [Summary] =>

The operator of the crippled nuclear power plant leaking radiation in northern Japan announced a plan Sunday that would bring the crisis under control within six to nine months and allow some evacuated residents to return to their homes.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-17 17:58:08 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 677024 [Title] => Japan's prime minister says sorry for nuke crisis [Summary] =>

Japan's prime minister, fighting criticism at home over his handling of the aftermath of last month's massive earthquake and tsunami, says he deeply regrets the crisis at a radiation-leaking nuclear plant.

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As a 7-year-old, Richard Bernstein admired Jackie Robinson’s athletic ability and courage as the first African-American man to play Major League baseball in the modern era.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 518125 [Title] => Calamities beyond the Philippines [Summary] =>

Filipinos were not the only ones who suffered from calamities. At almost the same time that the Philippines was experiencing the wrath of typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng, the World Heritage town of Hoi An in Vietnam was also flooded, Indonesia was wrecked with intensity 8 earthquake and Samoa, one of 15 islands in the Pacific was swept over by tsunami.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 498840 [Title] => Ramos to GMA: Make up for your shortcomings [Summary] =>

Reform, perform, and transform.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 471061 [Title] => The freedom to read [Summary] =>

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 454282 [Title] => Mother packer [Summary] =>

I have two bags for five countries in eight weeks. What better way than to share this challenge for our special travel issue in YStyle.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133192 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804717 [AuthorName] => Celine Lopez [SectionName] => YStyle [SectionUrl] => ystyle [URL] => ) ) )
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