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    IT was Manila’s fate to be caught between the super­sized ego of American Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the...

  IF there was anyone with a claim to a signature song, it was Armida Siguion-Reyna with her “Aawitan Kita.”...

    AS Ted Failon put it, we’re clean­ing up Manila Bay now for fu­ture reclamation? If a survey were...

    WHEN James M. Scott sub­mitted the first draft of his book about the Battle of Manila that was...

  I’VE been to Utopia and I’ve seen the future. Given the chance, every single blessed sen­atorial candidate in the...

    YOU think small when you light one candle at a time to dispel darkness. Illac Diaz, who should...

    WHEREVER those drugs worth P6 billion-plus have landed, we’re seeing bits and pieces of them being seized in...

    “COWARDS!” the man mut­tered under his breath, though it would’ve been well with­in his rights to shout the...

  EVERY year that ends and leads into a new year, forecasters promise a better one ahead. Well, it’s good...

  VOTER education: Does it teach you everything but how to choose your candidate wisely? Then again, wisdom is subjec­tive....

  MOCK elections as a dress rehearsal or to smoke out the bugs in the polling system were held Jan....

    WHY are some, or many, people scared of nuclear power? Mostly because they think it means a powerful...

    WOMEN accumulate more clothes than they will fit into or need in a lifetime. Men hoard gad­gets, devices,...

  PRESIDENT Duterte on his frustra­tions with the Commission on Audit: “Ihulog sa hagdan.” Push them down the stairs. COA...

    SHE belongs to the universe now, but she is ours first, with Australia also claiming her as their...

    OUR “heirloom” Christmas orna­ments packed away, suddenly the living room looks so empty, al­most as bare as the...