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                    [Title] => The general you deserve
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One of the biggest guffaws I heard during a showing of Jerrold Tarog’s Heneral Luna in Power Plant Cinema was when a snooty foreigner in charge of the railway tries to converse with the high-blood Filipino general (John Arcilla) about appropriating a train to transport his troops. The foreigner, dripping with a British accent, tries switching from French to Spanish to English before the exasperated Luna bellows to his men in Tagalog: “Take him away and arrest him, I’m running out of English!”

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-19 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1348320 [Title] => On Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return [Summary] =>

I'd like to congratulate my good friend Consul John Domingo and Mila Espina for the well scripted program on the independence anniversary of the United States last July 4 at Marco Polo Hotel.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135364 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1148741 [AuthorName] => Atty. Mario D. Ortiz [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 964690 [Title] => INFOGRAPHIC: How does the Alcaraz compare with other Navy vessels? [Summary] =>

The Philippine Navy's official Facebook page for newly acquired warship BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PF 16) created a visual comparison of old Navy vessels with the country's second Hamilton-class cutter.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-12 15:10:41 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2496/5o1j.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 906115 [Title] => MNTC eyes completion of P10-B tollroad in time for APEC in 2015 [Summary] =>

Manila North Tollways Corp. (MNTC), the tollways arm of infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) of businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan, is looking at completing the P10-billion Harbor Link project in time for the country’s hosting of the 23rd Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2015.

[DatePublished] => 2013-02-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097197 [AuthorName] => Lawrence Agcaoili [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 738903 [Title] => Remembering Gen. MacArthur's 'I shall return' [Summary] =>

Sixty-seven years ago today, Gen. Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his famous and often repeated promise that he made to the Filipino people when he arrived in Australia after his harrowing escape from the island of Corregidor by PT Boat, “I Shall Return”.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 739049 [Title] => Be liberated from money-based political patronage! [Summary] =>

Not many of us remember, much less attach some significance to, October 20, 1944, the day Gen. Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his promise to return to our country.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 622207 [Title] => Pilipinas Shell a huge taxpayer and a smuggler? [Summary] => In case you may have already forgotten your history, today we commemorate the 66th anniversary of the invasion of Leyte, which is also known as the MacArthur Landing in Leyte. [DatePublished] => 2010-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 455064 [Title] => How what we don't want to know will kill us [Summary] =>

My late father told me that it was only after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 when many Filipinos realized that war clouds hovered over our country.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133540 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1790869 [AuthorName] => William M. Esposo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 67625 [Title] => Indiana Jones in Old Manila [Summary] =>

Three little words. Gen. Doug MacArthur made history by uttering a certain three-word phrase — “I shall return” — which launched a thousand T-shirts, dozens of sly spoofs and countless Corregidor tours here on these shores.

[DatePublished] => 2008-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 15884 [Title] => MacArthur memorial in Virginia to undergo major expansion [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1644511 [AuthorName] => Patricia Esteves [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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