Thoughts on Education from Bonn

Bonn World Conference Center, Bonn, Germany: As the 700 delegates from 151 countries leave the conference plenary, a mixture of optimism and pessimism about the possibility of realizing the items enumerated in the declaration adopted by the plenary can be felt. The same can be said of the NGO conference I was part of last [...]

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Congressmen You Should Not Vote For in 2010

In political science, they say all politics are local. This basically translates into the political dictum that for someone to win an election, the candidate must be able to connect with local issues and that concerns local and common people.
Henceforth, whether you are running for a local or national post, your best strategy is to [...]

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The True Obama of the Philippines

Filipinos love to imitate. This a common Filipino trait as identified by my students recently. With the call for change becoming the fad in politics as exemplified by the electrifying victory of Barrack Obama in the United States, not a few Filipino politicians have started to proclaim themselves as the Obama of the Philippines.
Jojobama Binay? [...]

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