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...several self-proclaimed final showdowns by the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which has long been intent on erasing from government any influence of billionaire populist Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed as Prime Minister in a 2006 army coup. After surrounding Parliament and forcing lawmakers to abandon their work, the PAD moved on to Bangkok's old airport, where a VIP lounge now serves as the makeshift headquarters of current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat. A brother-in-law of Thaksin, Somchai was evicted from his real office by the protesters, who have besieged Government House for the past three...
...imagine how Yang felt when Google decided to abandon the proposed partnership earlier this month? What a kick in the head...
There are a couple of ways law-abiding citizens can abandon children in Nebraska. Sometimes a desperate parent will tell a child that he or she is going to the hospital for something minor, like a rash - then in the emergency room, the child waits and waits, only to discover that the doctors are there but the parent has walked away for good. Or unruly teenagers might simply be dumped at the ER door. "A parent will pull up and say, 'All right, get out of the car,' " says Lisa Stites of Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha. In other...
...don’t have a national media to make sure we don’t say things our better natures would regret. And I suppose, unlike John McCain, we feelempowered to abandon the student organizations we nurtured and were nurtured by at the first sign of personal failure...
...while Harvard professors may not abandon their academic posts in droves as they did when Kennedy won the presidency, many of the faculty members currently playing a role in the campaign will likely continue to advise Obama in an informal capacity...