What to see this week
2 films to see on the week of October 9-16, 2015
Love Live: The School Idol Movie
A JAPANESE animated feature about a high school girl...
Proposals and presentations
Getting The Edge In Professional Selling
By Terence A. Hockenhull
LIKE MANY SALES MANAGERS, I am scurrying around trying to scrape together some additional sales to...
Anti-malaria drug artemisinin
PARIS — A frontline drug in the fight against malaria, artemisinin has a history going back many centuries, for it traces its past to...
Mother of Dragons
Dragon boat racing, a watersport that evolved from ancient Chinese rituals, is alive and well in the Philippines. Of the 20 teams under the...
The road less taken
“We’ll be bold enough to say that we had a lot to do with popularizing outdoor sports in the Philippines. We promoted the category,...
Iowa girls
For nearly a century, girls’ high school basketball was the number one spectator sport in the state of Iowa, captivating fans and making heroes...
Game, set, match
Some of Jean Henri Lhuillier's business philosophies came from playing tennis. “In business you have to have discipline. To get better, you have to...
Winning the big one (almost)
As it is in life, so it is in poker: those with little to lose will risk a lot. Butch Dalisay says that the key...
Between working and working out
“I have heard all the excuses in the world. ... I bring Gold’s Gym to them. How else can the enrolled members not work...
Newfound energy
“The thing about life is you get filled up and when you don’t have any space, nothing new can happen. So when you give...
HENERAL LUNA: a cinematic revolution
By Zsarlene Chua, Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman, Joseph Garcia
UNLIKE THE BLOODY assassination scene where katipuneros shoot and stab the lead character to death, Heneral Luna —...
The movie and historical accuracy
THE FILM HENERAL LUNA, which has received much praise from critics and audience members, is notable for its commitment to producing a historically accurate...