At a recent gathering of the United Nations Association where he was to receive an award, Ted Turner, founder of CNN, though better known as Jane Fonda’s husband, jolted his audience by announcing that he was donating $1 billion to the United Nations. The money will be turned over to the financially-strapped UN over ten … Read more
The issue in the September 21 rally, as I see it, is not whether the present Constitution should be changed now or at any other time. The real issue is whether the Constitution should be changed in order to allow the incumbent president, in this case Mr. Ramos, to stay in power longer than 6 … Read more
In his last televised special address to the nation before leaving for Russia and the Middle East, President Ramos showed that, when he wants to, he can be categorical and emphatic about a lot of things. There will be elections in May 1998, as scheduled, he said categorically. And, he will oppose any move to … Read more
“Stars,” wrote Richard Dyer, “articulate what it is to be a human being in contemporary society.” They embody not only the values and traits we avidly pursue in the modern world – style, beauty, youth, wealth, health – but also the torments and contradictions of actual living. In them, we, ordinary mortals, project our deepest … Read more