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World Cup fever: Field wide open with Germany’s fall

One win and two losses. That was the Germany’s standing after it was eliminated on Day 14 of the World Cup. It was the first time for Germany to fail to make the final 16 of the World Cup since 1938. That 80-year-old streak...

Cola wars 2.0

Tito Sotto is at the receiving end of some very bad legal advice.  On the heels of his election as Senate President, he composes a letter to the Philippine Daily Inquirer asking it ever so politely to take down articles about him written...

When God becomes just another joking matter

  Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will reap.—Galatians 6:7   Rarely do I give myself the chance to write about my faith even though I would like to think of myself as a Christian. Yes, I am...

Football beneath the volcano

Members of the 9th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) based in Bicol joined the children in the training, temporarily setting aside their usual duties and instead learned to dribble and pass. Although it was rainy the entire morning, Mayon...

Blunder bus

Okay.  My friend assured me that this story is true:  his friend who told him the story told him that it most assuredly was true and he was sure of it because the friend who had told him the story had assured him that it...

Football for humanity: the life and times of Christopher Thomas

In 1983, Paul McCartney—famous English singer-songwriter and member of the Beatles, acknowledged as the most influential rock band of the 20th century—shot a video for his song, “Pipes of Peace.” The video depicted the famous 1914 Christmas truce during the First World War, when...

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TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature by Alma Anonas-Carpio

        Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76,...

In memory of Amba

It was Jan. 2017 or was that 2016? I was told it had been raining in Lucban, Quezon for the past three months without...

How poetry and freedom mix

It isn’t often one gets to do a sit-down interview under the spreading branches of an acacia tree, while sprawled on one’s trench coat...

Kitchen confidence: Pandemic essentials

I’m assured that the provisions you are sending will have a hard time getting through, even in a crate,” wrote the journalist Colette to...