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                    [Title] => Roxas - not atop a gilded tower after all
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I had the benefit of being an active member of Toastmasters Clubs for almost two decades.

[DatePublished] => 2015-08-01 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1481476 [Title] => Today’s SONA & the Corruption Perceptions Index [Summary] =>

Today, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III (PNoy) will deliver his last State of the Nation Address (SONA).  Apart from the expected announcement of his anointed one (administration’s presidential candidate), he shall surely enumerate his accomplishments the past 12 months and will definitely present his “to do” list in the remaining months of his term.

[DatePublished] => 2015-07-26 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134218 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317599 [AuthorName] => Fidel O. Abalos [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1436316 [Title] => After the president resigns, then what? [Summary] =>

Twice in our history did we have presidents who, under different circumstances, vacated the presidency.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1358550 [Title] => Aquino turnaround is very risky [Summary] =>

The last several months saw the unraveling of grave issues affecting national interest. We convulsed to hear the expose that the mechanism called PDAF was, actually, an unbridled mismanagement of public funds.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1352323 [Title] => The walk-out, a constitutional breach [Summary] =>

I would have wanted to write today on an aspect of the State of the Nation address of His Excellency, President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1347189 [Title] => DAP ruling and the SALN of justices not related [Summary] =>

In the early morning of the day when Germany copped the championship trophy of the World Football Cup, local news media and international television channels were all busy reporting about the sporting event.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1346090 [Title] => Corruption & bribery: Habits or norms? [Summary] =>

A little over four years ago (June 30, 2010), President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III (PNoy) delivered his inaugural speech.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134218 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1317599 [AuthorName] => Fidel O. Abalos [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1308331 [Title] => A good move by President Aquino [Summary] =>

 Philippine media helped, the other day, in recording a fact that disturbed my sense of equanimity. I suppose that it was an ABS-CBN crew that went on board a Filipino fishing vessel trying to supply our famished soldiers (and replace them with new warm bodies) on the Second Thomas shoal and they should be congratulated.

[DatePublished] => 2014-04-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1288391 [Title] => A first sanction [Summary] =>

One lesson I learned in law school, decades ago, dwelt more in numbers than in substantive law.

[DatePublished] => 2014-02-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135054 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096513 [AuthorName] => Aven Piramide [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1201241 [Title] => Arrest them first! [Summary] =>

It may be a uniform headline news, an otherwise common topic that is profoundly dissected by noted columnists, a subject of comments identically discussed on air by distinguished broadcasters or more importantly, an opinion similarly voiced by ordinary citizens.

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