Medium Rare

  “THERE is a weeping in my heart,” words borrowed from a French poet, because words fail, thoughts spin in...

  FROM a diplomatic/maritime issue, a Chinese vessel hitting one of our fishing boats has become an emotional issue. And...

  “SO many beautiful girls, so lit­tle time” was the oft-repeated lamentation of a former boss of mine. Known for...

  SINCE we were rookies – How is journalism like crime? Like crime, journalism doesn’t pay – colleagues have been...

  PROBABLY apocryphal, but the story goes that when President Duterte hunkered down in his hotel in Tokyo to meet...

  EVERYONE and his sister-in-law have something unsavory to say about Smartmatic, everybody in­cluding President Duterte, Sen. Koko Pimentel, even...

  THE appeal of a US visa hasn’t changed much between the time of Hitler’s reign of terror and the...

  HOW can we teach our children to love discovering the world through their books and their teachers’ eyes when...

  GARBAGE as metaphor? Tons and tons brought into our beautiful once-pristine islands by merchants without a conscience – what’s...

  MANNY Sison owns a price­less collection of Chinese blue-and-whites. The collection has grown to museum size, which he keeps...

  BENEATH the spreading boughs of the fire tree, its flowers aflame and spreading like wildfire, the city sizzles in...

  FOR my friend and ex-future senator of the realm, losing the good fight was both a relief, physically and...

  A GLAMOROUS grandmoth­er several times over, with nary a line of a wrinkle on her face. A former justice...

  IF you were Mayor Isko Moreno, where do you begin? A true-blue Manileño, a genu­ine Tondo boy who knows...

  A FAMOUS practitioner of the law ran in the 2016 elec­tions for a seat in the Senate. Extremely qualified,...

  FOLLOWING a younger voter’s example – his choices were based on “whom I don’t like” – let me say...