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Three boobs and a candidate
Ethel Booba, that funny girl, should not sell herself short the way I did. To clarify, I did not sell myself short—I sold her short. For no good reason, I might add, except that I mistook her for someone not to be taken seriously....
Those haunted places
Creepy, ghostly, and notorious spots.” That is how the Life magazine described “the world’s most haunted places.”
Life has come up with a book filled with blood-curdling photos and eerie stories about the world’s creepiest spots. It was Charles Dickens who stimulated the editors, writers and photographers to...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: Oct. 23 to Oct. 25, 1944
The year was 1944. The war in the Pacific had definitely turned against Imperial Japan.
On June 19 of that year, the outcome of the Battle of Philippine Sea cemented the US Navy’s supremacy in the Central Pacific. That naval battle, which was highlighted...
And the award for best sound effects goes to…
It must have been a dark and stormy night when a classmate of ours from law school, identity undetermined and gender unknown, sat down and put the finishing touches on his thesis. (I use the possessive “his” because the story that follows must...
The ides of a university
Intelligence-gathering, when conducted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines, becomes less of an undercover op and more of wish-fulfillment in that it could really use some intelligence. After identifying 18 universities and colleges as alleged hotbeds of recruitment for the Communists, the...
When semester ends in Ilocos
From a terror professor to a perfectionist boss. From a thrilling thesis oral defense to unending weekly reports. From lively classrooms to silent offices. From a two-month annual summer break to a two-day, incomplete rest in a week. Indeed such big differences for...
