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                    [ArticleID] => 1521952
                    [Title] => Money and meaning
                    [Summary] => 

Dallas Willard is an academician. He was voted as one of America’s most influential people.

[DatePublished] => 2015-11-14 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133774 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1489158 [Title] => Be happy and live longer [Summary] =>

Is there a person alive who doesn’t want to be happy?

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-17 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134789 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805275 [AuthorName] => Dr. Willie T. Ong [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1358895 [Title] => Thank you and goodbye [Summary] =>

I've enjoyed Robin Williams' career ever since his appearance in the hit comedy TV series about an alien sent to Earth to observe human behavior while boarding with a human woman.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135937 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1444024 [AuthorName] => Korina Sanchez [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1358911 [Title] => Kellan Lutz’s role model [Summary] =>

“Twilight” star Kellan Lutz teared up when he talked about the death of Robin Williams, saying he saw the actor-comedian as a model for how to be a dad.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1356952 [Title] => The Robin Williams that I met in Tokyo [Summary] =>

I don’t think that laughter is the best medicine but it does help a lot in easing the pain and in curing sick people.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 671075 [Title] => A patient patient [Summary] =>

According to the classic English translation of Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno,” the gate to hell has a sign that says, “All hope abandon ye who enter here.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134791 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1365384 [AuthorName] => Isagani Cruz [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 513572 [Title] => MARRIED TO THE MAD [Summary] =>

And now for something completely different.I wanted to give the No Girlfriends Since Birth (NGSBs), the Dirty Old Men (DOMs) and the administration a respite from my weekly regurgitation of one-liners and thinly-veiled innuendo as I invite my three female readers to assist me in my most pressing charity work: the charity of my baby Fortune Ledesma’s escalating diaper budget. 

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135287 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1702540 [AuthorName] => RJ Ledesma [SectionName] => For Men [SectionUrl] => for-men [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 417963 [Title] => How to be happy [Summary] =>

Is there a person alive who doesn’t want to be happy? There isn’t one. But how often do we think of ways to be happy? If you’re feeling sad because of some family or financial problems, don’t despair.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134789 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805275 [AuthorName] => Dr. Willie T. Ong [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 325520 [Title] => Watch those price increases! [Summary] => Whoever said the R-VAT will not affect the prices of goods should probably go and see either a priest and confess for lying or a psychiatrist for failing to recognize what is true and real.

We would like to invite you to send in your observations of all the increases that you have noticed in the food that you buy or consume, the utilities that you pay for, even the medicines that you purchase.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133239 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1223596 [AuthorName] => Cherry Piquero Ballescas [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273474 [Title] => Lesson from Patch Adams: Be funny, be healthy [Summary] => The author, 19, is a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education student of the Philippine Normal University. A private person who loves writing, she aspires to be a good poet, novelist and scriptwriter, or a good columnist and trusted broadcaster.

Sometimes it is better to be different. It takes a lot but it also gains a lot. Taking risk is like putting your foot at the edge of a high mountain with two chances of staying alive or falling dead. Yet its result may change not just your life but lives of people who need that foot to be a better and meaningful individual.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134854 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1531674 [AuthorName] => MY FAVORITE MOVIE By Katherine V. Marfal [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) ) )
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