YOUTH & CAMPUS
For UP the bells toll
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The sound of the Carillon bells echoing through the vast expanse of the University of the Philippines Diliman campus may be a fresh experience to young generations strolling in the renowned campus.
The music of the UP Carillon was first heard on the Diliman campus in 1952. […]
Natascha McElhone as muse and creator
In ‘Californication’ and on film, the actress’ characters tend to
inflame desire. Her great passion, however, is to secure her late
husband’s legacy.
By Josh Gajewski
November 23, 2008
On television, she plays the steady hand in a show about unsteady
people, the muse to David Duchovny’s tortured-writer protagonist in
Showtime’s saucy Sunday night series “Californication.”
She’s also […]
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All Return Again
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not
die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.
Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals
and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of the
window, sound and well, in some new strange disguise. […]
I miss those long walks to V. Mapa from the U.P. As soon as fg closed the Listening Center for the day, we’d start our trek, from U.P. through what is now EDSA (formerly Highway 54), or through what is now East Ave., then turn right at Cubao, on through Aurora Blvd. It was indeed […]
Continue reading about ‘This is the road we tread, forever bare, and half the season quenched’
“Than counting my money in the bank, I’d rather have my children come visit me everyday.”
- Fgdavid, as told to his students during one of his classes
Obama makes history; turns to sobering challenges
By TERENCE HUNT, Associated Press Writer Terence Hunt, Associated Press Writer 43 mins ago
WASHINGTON – His name etched in history as America’s first black president, Barack Obama turned from the jubilation of victory to the sobering challenge of leading a nation worried about economic crisis, two unfinished wars and global uncertainty.
“The […]
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