
There are two kinds of people in the world—those who buy expensive notebooks and those who don’t.
Sad to say, I belong to the first category and I’ve been thinking of switching teams.
Why?
Because these pricey notebooks leave users such as myself shortchanged.
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- This copy was published in 2006 by UK-based Orion Books which features an introduction by Jasper Fforde.
NO two people could arguably have been more different.
Despite his death in April 2007, Kurt Vonnegut remains a celebrated American author. For his part, Eduardo “Danding” M. Cojuangco Jr., who will be 77 on June 10, is still trying—vainly—to live down his reputation as a crony of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. [See: Vonnegut, Cojuangco]
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IT’S about time someone wrote a biography of Joaquin “Chino” P. Roces, the late publisher of the Manila Times.
After all, beyond the small circle of older Filipino journalists who worked with him, very few people remember, let alone recognize who he was, why he went to jail, and what he has done for this country.
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