"The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His passion and profession are to become one flesh with the crowd. For the perfect flâneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the middle of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and the infinite." —Charles Baudelaire
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4th January 2012
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The Rappler story points out that Corona said he finished his Ph.D. in five years, while UST said he finished it in seven. That may be where the “lying” allegation came from.
That said, I don’t agree with how Rappler framed this story. If Vitug et al. had wanted to highlight Corona’s role in the situation, particularly given that he has supposedly fudged his academic record in the past (at Ateneo, where he claimed to have graduated with honors), they could have tried to find out if Corona knew of the somewhat unusual circumstances under which his degree and honors were granted. If he had (and that likely goes without saying, as he could not have been unaware that his scholarly treatise would be treated as equivalent to a dissertation), then Rappler could have raised the issue of delicadeza, shifting the burden away from UST and onto Corona by asking: Should Corona have accepted?
Such a trajectory would subsequently have provided a natural link to his midnight appointment as Chief Justice, which is one of the reasons he is being impeached.