Apprehensions
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
NEW YORK — Thanks to technology, we know what’s going on in Manila. That Trillanes and company were pardoned by P-Noy, almost soon as the amnesty papers were signed. That Sen. Joker Arroyo is upset by it, as is Sen. Miriam Santiago. That sila na ang magka-level ngayon, as a text joke supposedly goes. That at the rate Senator Arroyo has been sounding far from the Senator Arroyo young people used to idolize, it’s Senator Santiago who is embarrassed to be mentioned in the same breath as he.
The Morong 43 have not been released despite the many groups of international NGOs and lawyers praying for such, as well as the countless editorials and op-ed columns pointing out, as Conrado de Quiros did, that “It was the leftist rebels, more than the military ones, who fought GMA with a passion for the last nine years, for which they paid a terrible price.”
In the city that never sleeps, we get e-mail, we get texts, we get Facebook, we get media updates, and here I take the opportunity to congratulate whoever has given this paper’s Web site a facelift; the font’s much clearer and bigger, too.
But back to the neither-here-nor-there feeling that one has, shortly before flying back. What’s chismis and what’s fact is hard to tell when you’re abroad. The country’s top bachelor’s confirmed to have broken up with his girlfriend and is rumored to be “an item” with a very stylish woman. His usually loquacious sister is mum about it, and observers say it’s when she’s quiet that she also says a lot, so there..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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