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                    [Title] => Liberia hopes US Ebola aid pushes world to do more
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People critically ill with Ebola languishing in an ambulance for hours as paramedics seek a place for them. Treatment centers filling up as soon as they are opened.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-18 07:02:46 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1413081 [AuthorName] => Jonathan Paye-Layleh [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1368671 [Title] => ‘I want Filipino teachers’ [Summary] =>

I learned something very interesting recently. The words “five” and “one,” when said sequentially, sound like “I want” to those in mainland China.

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134370 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390801 [AuthorName] => Jim Paredes [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102999 [Title] => There goes civility - WHY AND WHY NOT by Nelson A. Navarro [Summary] => Sportsmanship and civility, among the most cherished of American myths, may be the ultimate casualties of the bruising US presidential stalemate between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush.

It used to be said that Americans play not so much to win but to test their skills and to have a good time for all. Winners are magnanimous in victory and losers take disappointments most philosophically as one of the inevitable hazards of daily life. The rules are said to apply whether Americans play baseball, conduct business or run for public office.
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