Reading the past, appreciating the present

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Originally published byPhilippine Daily Inquirer

Dean Conant Worcester (1866-1924) was a man nationalist Philippine history taught me to hate. Worcester felt alluded to in a blind item “Aves de rapiña” (Birds of Prey), in the Halloween 1908 issue of “El Renacimiento.” He sued for libel and won. The newspaper was forced to close, and the writer (Fidel Reyes), editor (Teodoro […]...

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