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                    [Title] => The greatest Boholanos who ever lived
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With apologies to our "sano" from Bohol, I humbly believe there are no more political titans today we can compare to the icons of old Bohol.

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                    [Title] => Half mast and black ribbons
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When Mandaue was still in the process of being chartered as a city, we were required by our Political Science 10 professor, the late Atty. Alice Alburo, to submit a term paper on it.

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