INQUIRER.net Most Read Feed http://services.inquirer.net/mostread/Inquirer_Opinion.xml 2009-08-13T13:58:17+08:00 text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090813-220024/Still-monuments Rep. Liwayway Chato wants Congress to declare Cory Aquino a national hero and wants the National Historical Institute to build monuments for her. Rep. Rodolfo Plaza does, too, proposing House Joint Resolution 41 to make it so. This, he says, “would ensure the continuity of her legacy of democracy and love of country.” text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090813-220022/Notes-on-the-Aquino-funeral Cory Aquino’s funeral, still vivid in our minds, was marked with many of our republic’s rituals, many of them borrowed from American practice. Yet we know hers was not a state funeral. What, exactly, is a state funeral? And how did Cory’s differ from that of her predecessors? text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090812-219859/Sen-Mar-Roxas-on-EDSA-Ooops-sorry Who was Epifanio de los Santos, the person after whom was named EDSA, the street bisecting Metro Manila that became world famous after the bloodless EDSA People Power revolt toppled Ferdinand Marcos and installed Corazon Aquino as President? text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090813-220023/Two-modern-parables Former President Joseph Estrada limped in an hour and a half late for his meeting with Sun Star journalists. But when he sat down in the paper’s conference room, he didn’t recycle the old “We wuz robbed in Cebu” syndrome. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090813-220021/So-Pinoy I am glad Sen. Mar Roxas dropped his proposal to change EDSA to Cory Aquino Avenue, after objections were aired that the Philippines’ undying legacy to the world—the non-violent EDSA Revolution of 1986—would lose its impact if that was to happen. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/editorial/view/20090813-220018/The-horror The decision of the military junta in Burma (Myanmar) to try pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on patently absurd charges, convict her after a preposterous trial and then impose on her a commuted sentence of 18 additional months of house arrest is a shocking, morally monstrous act. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090812-219860/Delusions This one got swept aside by events this last couple of weeks but is too important to let pass. That is the elevation of Carlo Caparas and Cecile Guidote to national artists, a thing that has the other national artists up in arms. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090812-219861/Last-good-meal Havoc littered the trail of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last week following her working visit to Washington, where for the first time since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, he took Ms Arroyo seriously and discussed Philippine-US relations with her. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090813-220020/Bad-bananas-and-collateral-damage I do not understand why there are people who vigorously defend aerial spraying of banana plantations even though it adversely affects communities that live and farm in the vicinity of these plantations. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090812-219864/El-coo-de-Tondo My favorite Manila airport is Terminal 2, better known as the Centennial Terminal, because it is easier to navigate than the others. Best of all, some of its furniture and design details seem to have been acquired from ADP or Aeroports de Paris. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/letterstotheeditor/view/20090813-220025/Treasonous-EO Heavy with petty quips (like a column in a weekly tabloid) President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address was light on substance. text/html http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20090812-219863/No-table-in-Heaven-for-Arroyo Early this year, HBO aired a documentary on the legendary New York restaurant “Le Cirque” and on the family behind its success: founder Sirio Maccioni, wife Egidiana and their three sons Mario, Marco and Mauro.