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Sun.Star Cebu's  Carvajal: "Last Statesman" FOR quite a while, former senator Jovito R. Salonga was the last surviving member of a dying breed of Filipino statesmen. With his death, the breed also gasped its  last as not even a shadow of a statesman was visible in the horizon the day he died. He left his country staring at an arid political landscape where not one blade  of statesmanship grass can be seen straining for sunlight.  Statesmen of the caliber of a Recto, a Manglapus, a Diokno, a Tañada, and a Salonga could still emerge in the nation’s future. But not before we seriously ask and  answer truthfully the question why the Filipino nation is not anymore producing statesmen or leaders with hearts that have room for the welfare of all. Why is it  instead churning out leaders with hearts absorbed exclusively in their family’s narrow interests? A statesman is born in a home. And just how many Filipino homes are there? Can all those homes be really so ...