In 2010, a Hollywood movie was released with the intriguing title “RED.” The term stands for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous,” which perfectly describes the main characters, a team of once-deadly CIA assassins who emerge from retirement to help their leader Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) survive several murder attempts as part of a political plot. The makers of the movie seem to have enjoyed fielding the cinematic irony of a group of aging characters upstaging—and outgunning, outfighting, outwitting—operatives
The scale of poverty as seen from below, by the people, is very much larger than as seen from above, by the bureaucracy. Nearly half of household heads in the nation rate their families as Mahirap (Poor), only one-fifth rate themselves as Hindi Mahirap (Not Poor), and nearly one-third feel on the border (“Second Quarter 2022 Social Weather Survey: 48% of Filipino families feel Poor; 31% feel Borderline Poor, 21% feel Not Poor,” www.sws.org.ph, 8/2/22). The (official) national total of 25.5 million families gives estimates of the Poor at 12.2 million families, the Borderline Poor at 7.9 million families, and the
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