The 2008 Bar examinations were the 95th to be conducted starting from 1913. World War II prevented two similar examinations from being held in 1942 and 1943.
The 94 bar examinations, from 1913 to 2007, produced a total of 96 topnotchers. There were two first placers in 1944 (former Senate President Jovito Salonga [LLB'46] and former Sen. Jose Diokno, who tied at 95.3 percent) and also in 1999 (Deputy Executive Secretary Edwin Enrile and Law Prof. Florin Hilbay [LLB'99] who tied at 88.5).
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Posted on 6th May 2009
Overheard from a visitor on the second floor balcony of the new Bencab Museum on Km. 6 in Asin, Tuba, Benguet: “Sa SM Baguio puro bahay ang makikita mula sa balcony. Dito puro puno.”
Apart from the museum, there is a hill, a terraced garden, a farm planted to upland fruits, vegetables and coffee, the artist’s house-cum-studio, a cafe named after Sabel (a vagrant woman who was his muse), a pond with ducks and tilapio and a hut in the middle of it, one of a few examples of Ifugao, Kalinga and Bontoc folk architecture scattered in the four-hectare property.
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Posted on 5th May 2009
Coming back home is a decision he will make over and over again.
Having earned both a doctorate and masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (IT) in Cambridge, Francis C. Felizardo (BSCE’85mcl) could very well have stayed in the US and trek a career path in science and research. That is beside the fact that MIT had always been his dream even as a high school student at the Philippine Science High School, and as an idealistic Engineering undergraduate at the University of the Philippines (UP).
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