For the complete list of INQUIRER.net RSS, Feed please visit http://services.inquirer.net/rss/rss.php http://services.inquirer.net/rss/779 2008-11-14T14:52:54+08:00 text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=170942 He was, by any measure, the superior candidate: clear and eloquent where his opponent often mumbled and stuttered; cool and even-tempered even when the other would dish out sharp rebukes. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=169617 As a young boy growing up in the provinces, I used to go to the cemetery at this time of the year, not to visit the dead, but to fly kites. There, on top of the blocks of tombs that housed the dead, I would set my frail paper kite against the chilly November wind. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=168376 MANILA, Philippines—My brother, Bishop Pablo David (“Bishop Ambo”) became auxiliary bishop of San Fernando, Pampanga two years ago. In this role, he assists Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, the head of the diocese. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=167082 MANILA, Philippines—No one who has watched Barack Obama’s meteoric rise in American politics in the last four years can fail to be intrigued by what he represents. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=165850 MANILA, Philippines—We do not know when exactly the term “civil society” first entered the vocabulary of Philippine politics. But sometime in the early 1980s, just before the EDSA People Power I uprising, it gradually replaced the awkward phrase “cause-oriented organizations.” text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=164532 MANILA, Philippines—The crisis that has pushed the American financial system to the brink of disaster is spawning its own moral economy. The new object of fixation is blame-worthiness, rather than credit-worthiness. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=163197 MANILA, Philippines—In a somewhat parallel way, though not with the same level of gravity, two of the world’s largest economies — the United States and China — are being battered by internal problems requiring swift government intervention. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=161771 MANILA, Philippines—The rise of moral symbols in politics always provides a dramatic starting point for a society’s transformation. Figures like Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma and Cory Aquino quickly come to mind.