Manny talks
Posted on December 26, 2009 - Filed Under Headliners, Pinoys Extraordinaire | Leave a Comment
In the aftermath of a fairly recent string of scandals that involved the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs among a few sports personalities, it certainly behooves both the Pacquiao and Mayweather camps in the planned March 13 bout to submit to routine drug testing. But for reasons that are perhaps clear only […]
Read More..>>The road from Unity
Posted on June 27, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Headliners | Leave a Comment
By most accounts, the first public appearance of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton together on the same stage after the bruising Democratic primaries was a day of unity, albeit heavily scripted, including the choice of the venue . . . a small town in New Hampshire called Unity. And everything unfolded in a way that […]
Read More..>>An unlikely hero to like
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Headliners, Governance | Leave a Comment
He resigned last week as president of state-owned Philippine Forest Corp. (Philforest) . . . no doubt to pre-empt being muzzled by the Palace . . . but ever since Rodolfo Noel ‘Jun’ Lozada Jr. decided to come out in the open to speak out with an insider’s perspective on the NBN/ZTE scandal he has […]
Read More..>>Giuliani to sunset in Sunshine State
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Headliners | Leave a Comment
The winner-take-all Republican primary in Florida unfolds tomorrow and it looks like Rudy Giuliani, the man who had planned and expected to be the Sunshine State’s GOP bet would have to say ‘Adios’
Read More..>>PNP’s blast theory bombs
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Headliners, Governance | Leave a Comment
Despite preliminary findings by government forensics investigators that mentioned the presence of traces of RDX at the Glorietta 2 shopping mall blast site, the Philippine National Police has issued a final report that lays the blame squarely on
Read More..>>No-bell laureate?
Posted on January 16, 2008 - Filed Under Headliners, Planet-friendly Ideas | Leave a Comment
German biochemist Hartmut Michel visited Manila last week and attracted considerable media attention when he warned officials about the perils of plunging into mega-scale production of biofuels,
Read More..>>The man to beat is a woman
Posted on December 10, 2007 - Filed Under Headliners | Leave a Comment
It’s no surprise that Barack Obama’s rallies over the weekend attracted massive crowds . . . reportedly close to 30,000 in South Carolina and around 8,500 in New Hampshire . . . what with talk show host Oprah Winfrey as the other star attraction. (Some of my Republican friends would likely point out that it […]
Read More..>>Pen to pen
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Headliners | Leave a Comment
It’s still unclear why Sonny Trillanes and his cohorts picked my favorite Makati hotel . . . way back in the early 1980s, I was an active member of a Rotary club that met on Thursdays over lunch at the Peninsula . . . to serve as the command post for his latest attempt […]
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