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Gillian Anderson is brilliant as the Lady Dedlock in the Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of one of the finest novels about money ever written: Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

Dear Auntie Janey,

Can’t Buy Me Love

Dear Can’t Buy Me Love,

Seventy-five to ninety percent of human laws pertain to property. I guess most people think of it most of the time. Even an unborn child can receive a donation. Some of the wealthy marry within their clan to keep their property within the family. From birth to death we are concerned by property issues: legitimacy of children, property regimes in marriage, mortgages, contracts of sale and succession rights. Capitalism and communism may be opposed to each other but they still boil down to one thing: property.
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In the dressing room of GMA-7, while waiting to be interviewed on Unang Hirit and News To Go.

L-R: Gaz Holgate, Michael Duhig, Luke Matthews, Patrice Olivier

punched a hole in the space-time continuum this afternoon at 1245 hrs in Greenbelt 3. Michael Duhig, Patrice Olivier and Gareth Holgate of the Philippine Volcanoes men’s rugby team were shopping for shoes at the Nike store in Greenbelt 3 when another national athlete materialized in the area—Neil Etheridge of the Azkals Philippine men’s football team.

L-R: Michael Duhig, Neil Etheridge, Patrice Olivier, Gaz Holgate

Although the electromagnetic charge of the vortex scrambled the signals in my brain, my force field held and I was able to request a group photograph. Voila! Proof that we were in the vortex.

Details (Why does Gaz look like Bullseye in Daredevil, where did his hair go?) later. We hope you tuned in to Unang Hirit on GMA Channel 7 this morning for Edu Manzano’s interview with Volcanoes Michael, Patrice, Gaz, Raf Zappia, Tyler Perez and Luke Matthews, and then to News To Go on GMA News Channel 11 for the Volcanoes’ talk with Kara David.

Their interview with Mark Zambrano will be aired tonight on 24 Oras on GMA-7.

The special edition Le Petit Prince Moleskine is now available at selected National Bookstores.

This notebook (available in two sizes, in plain and lined) features the familiar illustrations from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s much-loved work. There’s a cutout enclosed that you can turn into a pretty mobile.
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Patrice Olivier with Katana. Photo by JZ

Patrice Olivier of the Philippine Volcanoes, the national men’s rugby team, has just signed with the AS Béziers Hérault rugby club in France. This is the first professional contract for the half-Filipino, half-French Patrice, 21.

The Beziers stadium

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