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Posts Tagged ‘Elections’
Binarurot na tambakol
13 Jan 2010
That probably happened to you. You fancied trying out a restaurant for the first time. You plunk down on your seat. You flip through the menu from end to end. Then you flip through it again. There’s not one [...]
Cheap pop
9 Sep 2009For those who watched professional wrestling, there’s a term they use for positive cheers – “pop.” The easiest way to get a pop is to mention the town in which they hold an event or refer to something of patriotic in nature. Americans (at least wrestling fans) just love chances to do a “USA! USA!” [...]
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- Tags: 2010, Election, Elections, Noynoy Aquino
KAISA as UP’s ‘change’?
28 Feb 2009I had an interesting discussion with my English majors last Thursday in a discussion on the language of politics. Hot off the USC elections, the group in charge made references to the parties and their campaign tactics. It was interesting how they dissected the language and the context and probed the factors that may have [...]
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- Tags: Elections, Philippines, STAND-UP, University, UP, USC
Chiz leads, too early still
15 May 2007So far, as of 6:36 AM, NAMFREL marks Chiz Escudero as leading the Senate race. For a quick tally updates, visit Inquirer.net.
He’s followed by Loren Legarda (whom a former professor made buking as one who totally sucked in Comm I), Ping, Noynoy, Manny, Kiko, Cayetano, Joker, Gringo, Trillanes, Angara and Koko.
While it’s still too early [...]
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