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In the Winter of Our Lives

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From: Filipinas
Date: 20060801
Author:Macabenta, Greg B

When everything seems to be going wrong, I press myself to recall the final lines of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind":

"O Wind, if Winter comes,

Can spring be far behind?"

The worst of times will surely turn into more benign climes. Dawn must inexorably follow night. The long dark tunnel has to have, at the end of it, a light.

Except in the Philippines, the pundits tell us. That light at the end of the tunnel is an onrushing freight train.

Fortunately, not everyone believes that. I don't.

In this issue of Filipinas, we pay tribute to someone who didn't. He was realistic enough to ...

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