After writing an intimate political ethnography of the campaign that made Joseph Estrada the centennial president, Dr. Aprodicio Laquian came home from Canada early last year to launch the book in Malacanang. Almost a year later, to everyone’s surprise, Prod returned to Manila with his wife Eleanor (on a “buy-one-take-two” basis, he would joke) to … Read more
Having known Sr. Christine Tan and what she did during the dark Marcos years, I would be terribly disappointed if she did not speak her mind after being rudely and hastily dismissed as a director of the Philippine Charity and Sweepstakes Office. I would also feel very distressed if those of us who have known … Read more
In a futile attempt to explain the latest increase in the price of oil products, the government has said that the rise in oil prices is worldwide and that the Philippines has kept its prices lower than those for the US and much of Asia. This, I am sure, will not comfort those of us … Read more
In the telephone surveys conducted by radio and TV programs on Quezon City Rep. Michael Defensor’s intervention in behalf of four young women arrested for vagrancy, majority of the callers sided with the police and labeled Defensor’s act improper. This is distressing. The arresting policemen had asked the girls to come out of the pubrestaurant … Read more