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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...
...family-oriented culture, she is also uncommonly devout even for a country that is 85% Catholic. And if Cory inspires faith, it is largely because she is inspired by it. Three of her closest advisers are Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila; Father Joaquin Bernas, president of the Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University; and Father Catalino Arevalo, another Jesuit, who is her spiritual adviser. Addressing the governors of the Asian Development Bank and 1,200 international delegates two months after coming to power, she frankly declared, "I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles...
...lead. When Marcos called for early presidential elections last year, the church was ready. The groundwork for selecting opposition candidates and drafting a platform had been worked out by the so-called Jesuit Mafia, which helps form Catholic political positions. The group, which included Father Joaquin Bernas, president of Ateneo de Manila University, had already concluded that the strongest possible opposition candidate was Benigno Aquino's widow, Corazon...
...round the country. Many Spaniards were appalled by the fact that Puig had been killed by garroting.* In protest, Camilo José Cela, Spain's best-known contemporary novelist (The Family of Pascual Duarte, Pavilion of Repose), refused to take his seat as new president of the Ateneo, the country's most prestigious organization of thinkers and artists...
Later, three foreigners will discuss "Does the West Need an Ideology?" In the symposium will be Miguel Barnad, professor at Ateneo de Manila; Uwe Johnson, German author; and Aryeh Simon, of the Israel Ministry of Education and Culture...