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Atayde sheds light on new UAAP rule

Last month, rumors of a soon-to-be-approved UAAP rule allowing high school players from UAAP schools only two-year residency when they opt to transfer into other UAAP schools, circulated in online media bureaus and forums, pre-empting analyses and commentary from UAAP analaysts.   These analyses include speculation on FEU star Jerie Pingoy’s wish to transfer to…

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Crash Course: How to man a plane

Now let’s take a look at your experience so far with the mean machines of travel: the road with a jeepney? The sea with a boat? That is some impressive practical knowledge you have there, but we cannot let you finish the course just yet. Never proclaim the party over without the rock star: this…

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Crash Course: How to captain a yacht

When the astronauts in space look back down on our planet, they see blue. Seventy percent of our world is made up of salt-water oceans and we are living in the remaining minority – land. This is common knowledge to anyone who had to draw and color the globe back in grade school. It was…

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Rant and Rave: Bombshell; The New Marilyn Musical from SMASH

Rating: 4.0 Marilyn Monroe defined an aspect of the 1960s: her curves, vivacious laugh and sex appeal made her adored and lusted upon the whole world over. However, we don’t know everything Ms. Monroe; with every flash of the camera, issues and scandals brew in her life that some people deem as tragic and melancholic.…

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Rant and Rave—30 Rock Finale: Hogcock! / Last Lunch

Rating: 4.0 For the last seven years, Tina Fey has crafted humorous stories with her semi-autobiographical TV comedy, 30 Rock. While it has received three Outstanding Comedy Series trophies from the Emmys, a problem the show has been going through ever since it started are its dismal ratings. When NBC announced that it was going…

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Green Pulse: The top Lasallian modes of transport, if only they actually existed

With reports from Steph Pagdanganan Picture this: you woke up way past your usually-reliable alarm and are running late for school.  You take the fastest shower of your life, skip breakfast and leap onto the soonest bus, FX or taxi and wish you could yell, “STEP ON IT!” and have the driver fly through the…

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Vignette: Quirky commuting

At the core of every city are the rumbles and vibrations, the smoke and the bluish gases, emanating from vehicles of all shapes and sizes. One can never fully explore and understand a city without experiencing the thrills and feels of its transportation system. At best, these roads and railways snake around the city –…

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25 Cents Worth: Shifting dispositions

Growing up, we were taught by Disney movies that we could do anything. Defeat a fearsome Hun army despite being an untrained girl in an all-male Imperial army? Check. Fly on magic carpets and get a princess to fall in love with you, despite being a kleptomaniac who has zero financial security and a monkey…

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DLSU Spikers: Ladies bag three-peat, men placed third

The DLSU Spiker teams ended in contrasting fashion to conclude Season 75 as the Lady Spikers successfully completed La Salle’s three-peat quest while the Green Spikers took yet another bump in the road. Successfully winning a third straight title this season, the Lady Spikers stymied the Ateneo Lady Eagles once again after sweeping the match,…

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The 10 minute rush detours

Traffic. Traffic everywhere. Traffic in the Metro is inarguably one of the major causes of hair-pulling and non-stop cussing every Filipino morning. It is an inescapable and powerful phenomenon, this thing we call traffic. We always try to avoid it, but once we’re within its tight and polluted grasp, there is nothing else to do…