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President Benigno Aquino III on Thursday compared his parents’ love story to the difficult quest for the country’s next President.
Millennials who have no memory of martial law and the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. now have a book that might well be written with them in mind.
Secretary Voltaire T. Gazmin pulls out his smartphone and turns on an app that details the number of days left before he leaves the Department of National Defense.
Your mantra for the week: “The gift of love is the best gift in the world.”
This compilation covers a wide range of testimonies and writings on what life and governance were like during martial law.
Sad but true: Most Filipinos do not seem to have a profound sense of history. Those who do, tend to be more knowledgeable about the distant, rather than the recent, past. The so-called martial law babies, for instance, might be more familiar with the martyrdom of Jose Rizal than of Ninoy Aquino.
Forty-one years ago, on Sept. 22, I reported to the pre-martial law Graphic Magazine office in Port Area only to find it closed.
It didn’t take Mark Cruz too long to be noticed in the Letran senior basketball team tryouts. Even given his 5’5” height, he stands out among taller and stronger players.
Your mantra for the week: “God is my supply and the source of my unlimited abundance.” The word “Christ” was not Jesus’ surname. He was Jesus of Nazareth, who was given the title of Christ when he discovered the Kingdom of Heaven was within and began to preach the Truth about life and man.
Tucked in a dark shelf somewhere in the Archdiocesan Office of Communication of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila in Intramuros is a mint-condition back issue of Penthouse magazine.
