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An abundance of compassion

"In these challenging times, can too much of a good thing still be bad?" It has been a difficult year and a half for students...

‘Maliit na bagay’

"Everybody needs to recognize how big and threatening this virus continues to be, so that we can employ equally big, bold, planned and sustained...

The presidency is not for certain people

"It is not gender that determines success or failure." In a speech during the inauguration of the Skyway 3 project earlier this month, President Rodrigo...

Making sense of millennials

We of a certain age speak of those younger than us disdainfully, sometimes. We say, these kids never had it better. They have everything at...

Our state of mind

Imagine having to be in Makati at 10 in the morning, at the latest, every day, and imagine having to come from Quezon City—nor...

Sendoffs and symphonies

FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD violinist Adrian Nicolas Ong is leaving today. He is starting tenth grade and spending the next three years as a scholar at the...

Careful what you wish for

WE GRIPE about how the word “change” seems to have lost its meaning. For many years—across generations, actually—our politicians have sought office promising change....