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Fighting Maroons outlasts Soaring Falcons for championship date with Blue Eagles

The last time the University of the Philippines fought for the UAAP (University Athletic Association of the Philippines) basketball crown, I was a sophomore in UP’s Diliman campus. That was in 1986. A long 32 years later, on Nov. 28, 2018, UP once again...

The sisterhood of the childbearing scrubs

Are women doing it for themselves or are they doing it to themselves? Nothing sets a movement back like heresy among its members, so when women themselves act contrary to what feminism considers in the best interest of other women, there is a jarring...

From the outside looking in… Trump and the U.S. midterms: My dire point of view

The bitter fight contest over the U.S. midterm polls has ended with the Democratic Party regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican Party cementing their hold in the U.S. Senate. The result can be seen as a concrete victory for...

China in the mix: Third telco’s the charm? FIRST OF TWO PARTS

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has named the “New Major Player (NMP)” in the local telecommunications market: The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Selection Committee declared Mislatel-led consortium as the provisional NMP on Nov. 7. The consortium is made up of Mindanao Islamic...

Four Sundays and a funeral

What is the proper term for someone who is taking the bar exam? I was going to suggest barista but I re-thought the thought after realizing that law graduates might take offense at being associated with slinging lattés, which are scrumptious, at a Starbucks. Not...

Boo

Damn Filipino parents and their lack of imagination. And patriotism. Hex me all you want, but I will maintain till I inhale my last that Halloween is the most un-Filipino of holidays and that the Philippines has no business celebrating the day.  It...

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Touring history: A look at the Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum

I was too early for the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards (NJLA), an annual event staged by the Philippines Graphic magazine. This was to begin...

The Prince of Tagurabong

I lived in a big house with my widowed mother, a grandmother and an unmarried aunt. My mother, Sofia Villasin Peñaranda, was a schoolteacher....

Hoops, we did it again

Settle down, people, but the battle of Katipunan between Ateneo de Manila and the University of the Philippines happens every year and not necessarily...

When labor leaders get killed

T­he row of factories that lined the main road in Barangay Mamatid, Cabuyao, Laguna brought back memories of another time, when students like her,...