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Villar statistically tied with Noynoy in new SWS survey

Senators Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Aquino III and Manuel Villar Jr. continued to engage in a neck and neck race for the country’s top post, and were statistically tied two months before the May 10 elections, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed. The SWS poll, commissioned by BusinessWorld, showed that while Aquino remained the top pick among presidential aspirants, Villar appeared to be catching up.   It noted that while both Aquino and Villar had lost ground, ...

San Sebastian tops Bar exam

Judy Lardizabal of San Sebastian College topped the 2008 Bar examination held over four Sundays last September, according to results released last night. The 108th Bar exam had 1,310 successful examinees with a passing rate of 20.58 percent, lower than last year’s 22.91 percent. A record 6,364 examinees from 109 law schools took the test. Lardizabal, valedictorian of SSC law school who got her bachelor’s degree in social work at UP Diliman, got a score of 85.70 percent, followed by Mylene Amer...