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? ...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
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...
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...