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Archive for August, 2007
New Rules For 2008
New Rule: There’s no such thing as flavored water. There’s a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That’s your flavored water.
New Rule: The more complicated [...]
Manila Bay, by Carlos Esguerra
Anybody could snap a photograph, but not everyone can be a great photographer. “Photography as a conceptual art may not be as simple as it sounds. The medium is expected to do what it does best: capture the hard realism of the material world. The talent to capture realism in its simplest geometric and [...]
Negative impact of Peso appreciation: OFWs appeal to Pres. Arroyo
(I received this email from Mr. Bong Amora, one of the active movers of the OFW Political Party. Bong and his group are encouraging their fellow OFWs and readers to copy the letter and send copies of it to H.E. Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, copy furnished the Honorable Members of the Senate, and Congressmen [...]
The Application of Islamic Family Law in the Philippines
There’s an interesting article published in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, entitled: The Legal Impediments to the Application of Islamic Family Law in the Philippines. The abstract of the article reads:
Vacant positions at the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG)
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We would like to invite all qualified persons to submit their resume to the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG).
Republic Act 9417 expanded the OSG providing its lawyers with more compensation and benefits. Currently, the office has 29 vacant solicitor positions.
The Solicitor position carries with it judicial rank so there is a requirement of [...]
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