Once is an accident, twice a coincidence, three times a pattern. Or so goes the saying that may apply—and not in a good way—to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) that was hit for the second time this year by fire that caused the temporary evacuation of more than a hundred patients and closure of its chronically packed emergency room.The Bureau of Fire Protection said the fire started at 11:16 p.m. at a storage room near the
A far cry from today’s Ongpin, Chinatown’s main street, it had much more character then than it has today. On a Saturday morning, my sister Jane and I joined a group of “eggheads,” which in that day’s idiom referred to intellectuals. They were Eric Torres, a poet and eminent Ateneo professor, another Ateneo professor who would become a world-famous painter, Fernando Zobel, Ding (Alfredo) Roces, a professor at the Far Eastern University who would later hold the position of editor of the Australia’s Geo Magazine, and two pimply faced American teenagers who liked to recite Catullus poems’ English translations—Mike Dobry and his
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