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“MY beliefs do not require you to believe in them.” That’s a paraphrase of a line from “The Matrix Reloaded.” Ideally, that’s what we should all aspire to in a democracy: having beliefs that we do not need to impose on others. With certain ideological true believers, however, the reverse is true: t…

IN ancient nautical charts and maps that depicted the land mass of the Philippines, where the areas had yet to be explored and its existence largely unknown, a warning was inscribed in Latin, “Hic sunt dragones” (There be dragons). The logic behind the warning was obvious. Recently a proposed gover…

IN his 1974 book, “Unheavenly City Revisited,” Edward C. Banfield identified four social classes for the purposes of analyzing social problems: the lower class, the working class, the middle class, and the upper class. He said this classification is cultural and psychological rather than biological…

Chen Shih-kai THE International Civil Aviation Organization or ICAO convenes its Assembly once every three years. During the event, multilateral meetings and discussions are held to draw up global civil aviation regulations and standards. Nations abide by the conclusions drawn at the Assembly, ensu…

WHEN the late Corazon C. Aquino took over the Philippine presidency that afternoon on February 25, 1986, while the EDSA Revolution was in its final hours, as a stark contrast to Ferdinand E. Marcos who had fled that evening, her governance was placed under a microscope. There were several reasons f…

Jim Rayphand Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are strictly that of the writer and do not explicitly or necessarily reflect, nor represent the policies and position of Northern Marianas College. MY first and only reaction to the news of a young man being fatally shot on a…