How shall we compare candidates: by their personal values or by their stand on issues? This is the usual question that Americans ask in every election. In the last US election, President Clinton appeared strong on issues, but was vulnerable on values. Bob Dole, on the other hand, was oozing with values, but he seemed … Read more
I have studied, taught, and lived in the University of the Philippines for the last 36 years, and I cannot remember a time when UP was not in bad need of money. A book on UP’s first 75 years notes that the creation of the State University, first proposed in 1904, could not be realized … Read more
At a conference on globalization held recently in France, someone in the audience asked me if Filipinos exported mushrooms too. I had mentioned in my paper that our farmers were being prodded to shift to high-value crops like asparagus in order to survive the global competition. I couldn’t tell him if we had begun to … Read more
The editors of the Reader’s Digest wanted to know what people from all over the world would do if they found a lost wallet. They dropped 10 wallets, containing an address and a modest sum of money, in every city they chose, and observed what the finders did with the wallets. It was a clever … Read more