{"id":1258,"date":"2007-04-18T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2007-04-18T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:48:51","slug":"heroism-apologies-and-overseas-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quezon.ph\/2007\/04\/18\/heroism-apologies-and-overseas-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroism, apologies, and overseas ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perhaps my mind was already focused on the idea, because of big mango’s<\/a> blog entry some days back, on leadership and sacrifice. But when I read that a professor at Virginia Tech (who had barricaded the door to his classroom until all his students could escape, but who was slain by that deranged gunman) turned out to be a Holocaust survivor and also died on Holocaust Memorial Day, I was stunned. Now that was leadership to the point of the ultimate sacrifice. You can read about that professor in my entry in Inquirer Current<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Bloggers are focusing on the killer, Cho Seung-Hui<\/a>, his “disturbing note,<\/a>” and his becoming “the new face of evil”<\/a> (or just another evil face<\/a>?). Also, an elegy by Marc Fisher<\/a> and by Nagsusulat Lamang<\/a> makes for thoughtful reading. Buzz Machine says the massacre story as it developed, points to “a new architecture of news.”<\/a><\/p>\n

The government is irked<\/a> by reports on the World Development Indicators 2007<\/a> (see its data on the Philippines<\/a>: the figures on agriculture, exports, capital formation, merchandise trade, and foreign direct investments and the debt service are interesting: and you can see how overseas remittances compensate for the drop in some of those figures).<\/p>\n

The Inquirer editorial<\/a> focuses on a debate sparked by a Japanese writer who argues Japan shouldn’t be so eager to apologize for enslaving women during World War II. Read the controversial commentary by Hideaki Kase<\/a>, and the response by Jeff Klingston<\/a>; and the blog Comfort women and other legacies of war<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My Arab News<\/em> column for this week is A Gigantic and Tragic Potential<\/a>. The Wkipedia entry on Overseas Filipinos<\/a> has some interesting facts and figures; what’s a bit confusing is the difference between the official census data<\/a> (granted, always a bit behind<\/a> because it takes so long to compile official statistics<\/a>) and all the other numbers floating around.<\/p>\n

Manuel Buencamino<\/a> pens an open letter to the Comelec Chairman.<\/p>\n

In the blogosphere, Ricky Carandang<\/a> is back to blogging. Philippine Commmentary<\/a> ponders the figures that might represent the voting population that votes on command<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bunker Chronicles<\/a> agonizes over a national character trait: influence-peddling. Thirtysomething <\/a>doesn’t like it when journalists have cat fights.<\/p>\n

YugaTech<\/a> has an interesting entry on why mobile blogging has flopped in the Philippines.
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