2007 August | Mindanao Writers' Blogs
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Life during wartime

Here’s some music by the Talking Heads that may seem appropriate for the times — what with heightened tensions looming across the horizon as government troops are bent on pursuing the Abu Sayyaf, and perhaps also Moro Islamic Liberation Front (jeopardizing the ongoing, if it’s not stalled, peace process) in the hinterlands ...

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Through the Hour-Glass

THE BUZZWORD then was individualism. Being unique. Playboy was running essays about how people everywhere were coming out of their shells to express themselves, and how many of them ended up frustrated. The magazine's ...

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A Smile is Forever

November 21, 1919-August 2, 1996

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The Golden Rule…

…seems to be that when one joins the public service, one should make the most out of it—or so it literally appears in this photo I took last year inside the provincial capitol ...