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To Samuel Johnson (born 1709; died 1784), poet, essayist and author of A Dictionary of the English Language (published in April, 1755), do we owe the observation that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” His biographer James Boswell (born 1740; died...
Elvis Presley faked his own death in 1977, and at the ripe old age of 81 still lives today as a grounds keeper in Graceland, the home he purchased in Memphis, Tennessee at the height of his film, music and television career in 1957. The military-industrial complex...
The advent of every new year inevitably brings with it not only the cheery predictions of hacks who claim to have the power to foretell what will happen in the next 12 months by telling the world which celebrity will be sleeping with whom or how the economy will...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Although critical of President Benigno Aquino III, Senate minority leader—and former Marcos defense minister-- Juan Ponce Enrile verbalized what the Aquino administration hasn’t been explicitly saying about the...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld As announced by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the official election season began last Jan. 10 and will end on June 8 this year. It includes a campaign period starting February and ending in May; election day...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld A Senate “reinvestigation” of the Mamasapano incident to coincide with its first anniversary on Jan. 25 this year has been proposed by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, who claims to have new information relevant to...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If there were an award for the most duplicitous story of the year, it should go to the Philippine National Police (PNP) for its claim that the bullets that are being regularly “discovered” in the luggage of airline...
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld Posted by Bulatlat.com Elections this November took place in two countries that are geographically far apart, and have practically nothing in common. But the results were in both cases as expected, although due to...
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