MULA SA PATNUGOT
Kapayapaan
Lahat tayo'y nangangarap na makamtan ang katiwasayan. Kapayapaan ang hinihiling natin.

SA ISYUNG ITO
Religion, Civil Society, the EDSAs, and the Korean Experience
Dennis A.S. Aguinaldo attended the Third UP-Hannam Interaction Conference, which reinforced his belief that "we have much more in common with our Asian neighbors than we imagine."

My American Dream
As a kid, Karla Maquiling was determined to have her photo taken there at Central Park. As she matured, she realized that there's no place like home and she had to stay home—having been an Iskolar ng Bayan, she felt indebted to the nation's struggling heroes, the masses whose taxes had helped her to school. But her currrent situation forces her to pursue that childhood dream.

. (Tuldok)
Lost na naman si James Nicolay: "Andito na naman ako. Sa punto na parang blangko. Parang tuldok. Tinatapos ang sense ng lahat-lahat ng mga salita, pero wala namang pinatutunguhan."

Kalinaw, Asya!
Ibinabalita ni Tembarom, kolumnista sa Peyups.com, ang pagkakatatag ng Asian Peace Alliance, isang malawak na alyansang naglalayong magtaguyod ng kapayapaan at katarungan sa Asya at sa buong mundo.

E-mail
Minsan, nakatanggap ng isang e-mail si Sherbien Dacalanio mula sa Unang Ginang ng Federal Republic of Nigeria. Humihingi ito ng isang mahalagang tulong sa kanya. Feeling important tuloy ng loko; di niya alam, hapless victim lang siya ng spam!

Pangakong Napapako
Simple at malinaw ang tanong ni Irene Martires para sa mga pinuno ng pamahalaan: "Nasaan na ang inyong mga pangako?"

LATHALAIN
National Consultative Workshop Convened on Street Children and the Juvenile Justice System
By Alfred A. Araya, Jr., CyberDyaryo
"I CAN'T forget what happened to me. I was caught with rugby. They poured it all over me. I wished they didn't do that." The thought that anyone could do that to a person could make any feeling person cringe, especially if they heard it from a 14-year old girl, who, motioning with her hands shared how the adhesive substance, which many street children sniff for its trance-like effects, was poured on her hair by police who arrested her.

UN Justice Romeo Capulong Nominated for Ombudsman
Stalwarts of the Estrada Resign Movement—now known as Plunder Watch—on August 29 submitted its formal nomination of United Nations Justice Romeo T. Capulong before the Judicial and Bar Council at the Supreme Court compound in Manila.


ANNOUNCEMENTS
Celebrities Join UP Press "Read Up!" Campaign
Celebrities will read from the latest literary titles of the University of the Philippines Press during “Got to Believe… in the Pinoy Writer!” at 4 p.m. on September 8, Sunday, Megatrade Hall B, SM Megamall.

The Ramon Magsaysay Awards 2002: Making Asia a Better Place
Distinguished as the Nobel Prize of Asia, it honors individuals in Asia whose life and work are characterized by selfless service which impacts the lives of the greater many.

MAIKLING KUWENTO
Press ENTER
Ni Vlad Gonzales
“Quiet! Sasabog ang mga computer! Bawal magsalita! Bawal pumindot ng kahit ano! Bawal sumuway sa teacher! Bawal gumalaw! Bawal huminga! Bawal ang lahat ng hindi sinasabi ng teacher!”

Sa mga Panipi ng Tadhana
Ni Vincent Cyrus J. Espiritu
Alam naming lubhang kalunos-lunos ang kalagayan namin. Ngunit wala kaming magagawa, palagay naming ito na ang itinakda ng tadhana—ang panghabang-buhay na magdusa sa panlalait ng mga nakaririwasa; isang pag-apak sa katayuan naming walang kalaban-laban.

A Nat. Sci. 1 Letter
By Noel Pascual
We are bags of protons and electrons, leptons, gluons and quarks, coming from the Big Bang, coming from all the cores of stars, dispersed in space, swimming through all the billion years, finding ourselves where we are now. "You and I have crossed paths again. Maybe I was close to you even when we were still in the deeper parts of a star..."

Old Women
By Dennis Aguinaldo
It was her time. She knew it. There was nothing left of her to give. And everything that could have been taken decayed before she did. She lived her life, smiled her smiles, sighed her sighs, and shed her tears. She hoped her hopes. And how she hated her hates loved her lovers!