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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Barrita: Lie detector
By Eddie O. Barrita
Neither Rep. Tony Cuenco nor lawyer Gloria Lastimosa-Dalawampu should take the lie detector test.
Why? Both might pass the test with flying colors.
Well, at least Dalawampu has refused Cuenco’s dare but has agreed to an eye examination instead.
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Battle-scarred court veteran Rudy Cabrera reminded me over scotch that results of a lie detector test are not admissible in evidence in court.
Now I know, maybe our jurists believe the lie detector test only tells who’s the better liar.
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Can you imagine an impassioned verbal tussle in court between Rep. Tony Cuenco and lawyer Gloria Dalawampu a la Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson in “A Few Good Men”?
Gloria would say, “I want the truth.” Tony would answer, “You can’t handle the truth. I shook his hand. That’s the truth.” And Gloria retorts, “No, you handed the truth.”
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Education Secretary Jesli Lapus plans to revive the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) that was scrapped in 1994 after it was found to be ineffective.
I did not know Lapus also has a penchant to pick up discarded rags.
But former Councilor Joy Augustus Young and Cebu City education consultant has a word for Lapus: Improve the elementary and high school curricula and hire brighter teachers.
Yes, hire brighter teachers before they go abroad.
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“The Filipino is worth dying for,” freedom fighter and former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino once famously said before a bullet in the head silenced him 23 years ago.
Apo Hiking Society’s Jim Paredes, who composed and sang patriotic songs, used to believe in that too.
He is now an Australian immigrant.
For Bisaya stories from Cebu. Click here. (August 23, 2006 issue)
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