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Valentine’s in March

Maybe. On Saipan last Friday was a post-Valentine movie, Always be my Maybe, a teaser for the Pinoy response to monogamous commitment still the legal form of marital bliss. The divorce is supplanted by the dissolution of a marriage through separate properties but without the...
Posted On Mar 14 2016 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Fundi and Kent

Reflecting on drinking alcohol, Fundi, is the street name of the Pedro Domecq brandy Fundador favored by my peers for special occasions. Kent is the cigarette at Duty Free Korea bold enough to print in big letters: SMOKING KILLS! In a class I taught not too long ago, I told a...
Posted On Mar 11 2016 06:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Secret societies

The elite in the Philippines were the Ilustrados, Spanish for “erudite” and “learned.” They were educated Filipinos (since ’64, Filipino became the language and Pilipino refers to the people), Jose Rizal numbering among them. For the Spaniards...
Posted On Mar 10 2016 06:06
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Visitors to Sa’i’pan

The written history of Saipan is not a long one. Neglected by Spain as an adjunct to the New Manila and refused ownership by the United States after it bought Guam, ending up in Seig Heil to the Germans before the Nazis took over the salutation; the rest of the Marianas were...
Posted On Mar 09 2016 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara
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