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VOL. LIIV. No. 039

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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P25M school furniture
under anti-graft watch

Twenty-five million pesos worth of furniture for different public schools in Bohol are under close watch to avoid corruption.

Department of Education (DepEd) - Bohol Division Supt. Elpidio Jala said his agency is widening its eyes in tandem with the anti-graft civil society group Procurement Watch, Incorporated (PWI) to ensure the quality and quantity of deliveries. FULL STORY

GIRL SCOUTS' LEADERS HERE. Teresita Chua (center), national president of the Girl Scouts of the Phils (GSP) speaks during a press conference which preceded the opening of the 21st National Council Convention of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines held at the Capitol building last Monday. The gab bearing the theme "Join in, reach out, Change Lives," which was adopted from the World Conference was held at the Bohol Tropics. The GSP national president is flanked by Susan Locsin, national vice president and Pureza Chatto, GSP Bohol council president.

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SEX VIDEO AND NATIONAL VOYEURISM

It is said that Victorians insist that sex does not exist while the Moderns say nothing else exists but sex.

An extreme psychoanalyst

Sigmund Freud said all of man's action are driven by the sex drive.

On the other hand, many years ago, the MTCRB (Movie TV Classification Review Board) in a fit of Puritan awkwardness - deleted parts of the classic movie (black and white) "The Schindler's List" because a.) the women prisoners bared their breasts while taking a bath for three minutes before being gassed by the Devil Incarnate Heil Hitler's Men in the concentration camp and b.) Liam Nielson was showing pumping her lover explicitly. FULL TEXT

Just Before Deadline
PLDT-Lopez clinches control
of Meralco management

Like last year, the Meralco Theater was packed with people who were eager to take part in the much-awaited annual stockholders' meeting of the country's largest power distributor.

But contrary to what many were probably expecting, the event ended the same way typical annual meetings do- without all the grandstanding and drama that transpired during last year's 12-hour long meeting. FULL STORY

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