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                    [Title] => Daang Matuwid swept under the rug
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Welcome to APEC 2015. Lest we forget, hospitality can be independent of pretentions.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-20 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1756349 [AuthorName] => Stefan Punongbayan [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744393 [Title] => Dear Kim Kardashian, [Summary] =>

I can’t recall the exact moment you first entered our collective consciousness, but I do believe it had something to do with Ray J’s penis.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133515 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Supreme [SectionUrl] => supreme [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 508498 [Title] => 6 people you meet on earth [Summary] =>

It was an experiment in human interaction, or maybe a step forward towards what all the social networks, of which a great number of us are members these days, are trying to do.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134370 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390801 [AuthorName] => Jim Paredes [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 282974 [Title] => Janis Ian back with Billie’s Bones [Summary] => Child prodigies do not always grow up into spoiled brats, they also mature into artists who continue to amaze the public with their works. Such is the case of Janis Ian who as a teenager stunned audiences with her astute poetry and detached singing style. But I have to admit that although she makes me think of Sylvia Platt at times, I do believe that she was too mired in self-pity in most of her early works. But then I have to also admit that self-pitying or not she is one writer who often hits the nail on the head. [DatePublished] => 2005-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135672 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804842 [AuthorName] => Baby A. Gil [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 281662 [Title] => Boracay as big dance club [Summary] => There is no doubt that Boracay is an island paradise which has the finest white sand this side of the planet, so white and fine you would think you can use them for facials and body scrubs.

Of course everyone (and that includes me) loves to talk about the good, old Boracay when at sunset, torches would emerge along the beach to illuminate the island which had not yet been connected with electricity and "population density."
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134006 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804782 [AuthorName] => Boy Abunda [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 162714 [Title] => Writing my wrong [Summary] => I have often been derided — more by myself than by others — for being fat. It’s not as if I need anyone to tell me about my shortcomings. [DatePublished] => 2002-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1488376 [AuthorName] => Marco Sardillo of The Philippine Star’s YS (Ateneo de Manila University) [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) ) )
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