Analysis of failed events; "Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; The battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun." - Robert Louis Stevenson.(Chaff from the Grain)

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From: Manila Bulletin
Date: 20070605
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Byline: HECTOR R.R. VILLANUEVA

YOU'VE got to hand it to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. She just keeps on truckin' till she is bone weary and under the weather. Rain or shine, her peregrinations here and abroad continue relentlessly in search of new investments and greater benefits for the Filipino people.

That is, her economic accomplishments and structural reforms speak for themselves.

Paradoxically, however, as shown by the mystifying and uncommon results of the May elections, President Gloria Arroyo's achievements appeared to have been overshadowed by the ...

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