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ICC and the rigors of curbing crimes against humanity

by Joel Pablo Salud   How effective is the International Criminal Court (ICC) in curbing crimes against humanity? A better question, perhaps, should be: is the...
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ELITE: A voyeur’s peek into the darker realms of the principalia

by Joel Pablo Salud Elite. The word hums as if it were a bomb waiting to be donated. In the Philippine context, the word is...
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Time, the Cosmos, and Stephen Hawking

Please allow me to nerd this one out. It was a rather sad week with the unexpected passing of English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and...
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Offending onions

Have you ever seen anyone go bat-crazy because of words? I know I have. It was a cool January afternoon when I first heard my...
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The thing with feathers—and nostalgia

You see, the thing with feathers is that, if you’re, say, a falcon, having feathers is probably the best thing that has ever happened...
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A world without Gabo

Outside of the commonplace sexual trysts penned by Anaïs Nin and the gothic thrillers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón, I practically weaned myself on the...
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“To poke the eye of the President”

I recall meeting former President Fidel V. Ramos for the first time. Decades ago I was assigned by a lifestyle magazine editor to conduct...
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Surviving an ‘acoustics war’

As with any government agency accused of corrupt practices, working for the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may not fall under someone’s definition of...
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Dunce Macabre: Living in the Age of the Ignoramus

Dunce. Noun. An individual slow at learning. A stupid person. Reminds me of this cartoonish image of a boy, at once presumed disobedient or lacking...
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Children and Politics: Where the rubber burns the road

Raising children: it’s not for the faint of heart. To me, the most agonizing of parents’ responsibilities to their kids are not the steady string...
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