IN a more enlightened period of advanced education in the Philippines, graduate schools required students, especially for doctorate degrees, to learn a foreign language. I was vice dean of the Graduate School of the University of Santo Tomas and aside from Spanish, we offered French and German.
WE all thought that glasnost and perestroika had turned the world a little warmer, bringing the protracted winter of the Cold War to an end. It did seem like that, and there was jubilation that the hands of the Doomsday Clock had been moved backward and the world did not have to be on tenterhooks awaiting the dreaded mutual unleashing of the weapons that science had made available to the ultimate in human destructiveness!
DADDY. Mr. Justice Hilarion Lolarga Aquino, a native of Camiling, Tarlac, came to Tuguegarao, a complete stranger here, to start a family with Mommy. Grandpa, Mr. Sofronio T. Callangan, suggested the idea of him running for councilor (today s Sanggunian board member) to make himself known and to start his law practice.