Word: ateneo
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However, if the Estrada verdict is a victory for her government, it's a Pyrrhic one. Said Benito Lim, a political analyst and professor at the Ateneo de Manila University: "If the government thinks this decision will lead to closure, that is not going to happen. Estrada is appealing his case; this alone will take at least a year. And, in the meantime, he insists he's not guilty. And there are plenty of people that believe...
...Barcelona. Survival and paying for his medical studies meant all sorts of jobs: distributing leaflets, playing semi-pro soccer, being a mafioso extra in a film about boxing. "One Christmas I was employed as one of the Three Kings, the black one," laughs Jamal over a coffee in the Ateneo, Barcelona's leading cultural forum. Jamal is now 50 and married to a Catalan. He has three children, a lucrative practice as a dermatologist in Barcelona, a second degree in history and geography, a seat on the board of the Ateneo and a professorship in cultural diversity at the Catalan...
...corridors of power. Her father Diosdado Macapagal governed the Philippines from 1961-65, and Arroyo reclaimed her old teenage bedroom when she moved back into the palace. Sitting primly on the edge of a sofa, she comes across like a college professor (she taught economics at the Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively bangs their dossiers on their desks, her dark eyes flashing with disdain...
Another factor is more sociological than financial. The country's top universities?the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila, De La Salle University?are dominated by students from rich and middle-class families who attended the top high schools. They eventually percolate into the Elite jobs available for graduates. For less-pedigreed programmers, the pickings can remain lean all their lives...