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Bouyant fresh beginnings
From: Filipino Express, The
Date: 20060115
Author:Mercado, Juan
Mercado, Juan
Filipino Express, The
01-15-2006
"NO one ever regarded the First of January with indifference...because it
is every man's birthday", Charles Lamb once wrote.
Birthday notwithstanding, today's economic crunch, taped muzzles of cops'
guns plus 2005's treadmill crises, audibly hushed the usual New Year's
fire-cracker eruption.
To make up, soused drivers leaned on car-horns. Others banged pans. Giddy
youngsters resorted to lung power. All were oblivious to what Thomas Mann
pointed out: "It is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols...
when a new year or a new century begins".
We ...
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