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May divorce be with you

  So who doesn’t want divorce?  Happily married couples, that’s who.  They and religious zealots, but can anyone come up with a good reason why the conversation should be strangled just because happy people and those who took vows of celibacy say so?  Well? ...

Lessons from a ‘fantaserye’ controversy

Three weeks ago, ABS-CBN released promotional campaigns for its newest “fantaserye” Bagani, a speculative, coming-of-age story of a male protagonist, utilizing the indigenous term which means, all at the same time, heroism, courage, and moral or spiritual distinction bestowed upon an exemplary...

The crown

Is she rueing the day she deigned to accept the offer to be Chief Justice? Does she lie awake at night thinking about what she could have done differently to forestall what is now happening to her from happening? Uneasy may lie the...

Crossword 43

ACROSS Springs Expectant Minstrel Large book Diploma ceremony Votation Cellphone gig My ego Presage Girl Pastry Gerund Low-level cloud Group Supported Dad Viral fever Trite Denomination Rough lava Tooth Fairy Malt drink Made-up story River Exist Mr. Tantay, actor Oven Before long Stately ...

Introducing Mission: PHL, the BusinessMirror’s Envoys & Expats Recognition Awards

Four years ago, in 2013, BusinessMirror—the broadsheet sister publication of the Philippines Graphic—started its Envoys & Expats section. It was designed to serve as a broader link between the reading public and the diplomatic community in the Philippines. Envoys & Expats was the brainchild...

Adios, Maria Clara

Either Associate Justice Samuel R. Martires, who wrote People v. Amarela, is a Miss Universe junkie or Pia Wurtzbach herself had acted as amicus curiae—a friend of the Court—because a portion of that Supreme Court decision sounded suspiciously familiar.  Amarela is a rape...

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On ‘True Enchantment’

Very rarely do I hear fiction writers disparaged for their fiction like it was some crime or disease people should steer clear of. Not from...

Two thousand and seventeen

Some half a century ago, a certain Chilean poet and Nobel laureate goes by the name Pablo Neruda penned a modern classic titled “Puedo...

The princess and the corn

by Marie Yuvienco There’s this legal koan relating to free speech cases that’s supposed to stump first-year students of constitutional law. Why it’s necessary to...

Do not delay screening for breast cancer

Photos by Bernard Testa When the entire island of Luzon was placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) back in mid-March, a number of women failed...