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Author (Category): Herbert Docena

Cory after death

by Herbert Docena* Funerals are not so much for the dead as for us who have to go on living. The dead have passed on; they can no longer hear us weeping. It is we—we who must scatter the flowers over their graves—who have to be...

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The jumpy ladies of Lebanon

By Herbert Docena* Treated like modern-day slaves, Filipina domestic workers in Lebanon have jumped off buildings to escape from Israeli bombs and abusive Lebanese employers. BEIRUT, August 2006: Miramar Flores stood on the...

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