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A Memoir of World War II
Before the Japanese attacked the American naval base in Hawaii on December 8, 1941, their invasion of the Philippines was expected. By then, the Japanese had already occupied Manchuria, large portions of China. French Indochina and the island of Formosa. In Manila, the...
Say I do
I’ve been wanting to devote a column to the happy betrothal of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. The Prince and the Showgirl was long overdue for a reboot—the last was between Rainier of Monaco and Grace Kelly, the glacier-cool heroine of many a...
Veteran journo Rolly Espina writes 30
Journalist Rolando “Rolly” Espina passed away peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017 surrounded by children and grandchildren in his home in Bacolod City. He was 84.
Rolly was born on Aug. 23, 1933 in Escalante, Negros Occidental, the eldest of six children born to...
All downhill from there
Once you start a boulder rolling downhill, there is no hope of stopping it. It is equally hopeless to push it back uphill as some Greek guy tried to a millennia ago but there was just no way. When Rodrigo Duterte formally terminated...
A Christmas staycation with Star Trek and Star Wars
It’s tough to get around the metropolis because of the massive traffic brought about by the Christmas rush.
Just going through the daily grind of getting to work on time is a struggle. And when you add to the equation the time spent just...
Huh?
Utter nonsense is what it is, all this talk about establishing a revolutionary government. I spewed my morning latté all over my blouse when I read in the papers that supporters of Rodrigo Duterte were rallying for him to establish a “revolutionary” government,...
