2007 May | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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What today’s better leaders tell young Americans

I'm reprinting this here not only because it's a good story. It's also because one of the speakers mentioned is Jim Wallis, editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. Back in the mid-1980s, we at the then Mindanao Sulu Secretariat for Social Action religiously subscribed to Wallis' magazine. Such a well-written publication was one of ...

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If you’ve got it, flaunt it…

… although that doesn’t quite apply to the photo. But if you think something in you makes you special, some quality or ability that’s otherwise secreted from the public eye, you’d do well to show it off. ...

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If you’ve got it, flaunt it…

… although that doesn’t quite apply to the photo. But if you think something in ...

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Once more…

There’s a movie I just watched: “Thank You For Smoking.” You’d think something like this wouldn’t come out of straight-laced Hollywood. But there it is, one of the more incisive satires to come out of ...

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Take not the road less traveled

Speech delivered by Mikaela Irene Fudolig, 16, at the Commencement Exercises, University of the Philippines, April 22,

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Cold and Lonesome in the City of Golden Friendships

The marathon meetings are finally over, and here I am again moony-moonying inside a hotel, this time in Cagayan de Oro City. My room has a fantastic night view of the city. ...

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Yosi, Anyone?

I’m supposed to be asthmatic, so I don’t know how I ended up smoking....