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...leads the next government, that homecoming is assured - Samak has promised to pardon Thaksin and his ex-TRT colleagues. How the military will react is unclear. General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who led the 2006 coup and has since appointed himself a Deputy Prime Minister, has promised to "accept the people's judgment." After campaigning began, the military announced that it needed nearly $9 billion over 10 years to modernize and buy new weapons, which reads very much like the price of its loyalty to the next government...
...person, I was inclined to count them out. It’s arguable the UC doesn’t have the power to do anything substantive and, instead, that we have to be realistic. But “being realistic” is not something Harvard students should readily accept. “Being realistic” is a cop-out. Only by pressuring the administration to do something “unrealistic” can change actually occur. Most people here care about the UC. People swear the UC doesn’t matter, yet countless numbers of people...
...Japanese study commissions were set up to mark the massacre's 70th anniversary. Meanwhile, a Harvard-sponsored joint study on the Sino-Japanese War has contributed Chinese, Japanese and English scholarship that promises to narrow the gaps between Nanjing accounts. "A joint project can socialize each side to accept that the other side is working in good faith," says Fogel. "It can also reflect on how one's own side may be basing conclusions on something other than hard data." Iris Chang may have begun the truth-finding process when, in an effort to explore her own Chinese identity...
...Despite the moral support they lend to those pushing the U.S. to accept stronger action, Gore, Kerry and the rest of the shadow U.S. delegation are ultimately powerless to affect the outcome at Bali - the fate of the negotiations remains in the hands of President Bush and his negotiators. Toward the end of his speech Gore, with his customary taste for the eccentric analogy, invoked the hockey player Bobby Hull, who Gore said was skilled because he sent the puck, not where his teammates were, but where they would be. "You have to look to where we're going...
...enter his plea of guilt or innocence. After serenely requesting a bit of extra time, Fujimori launched into an outraged howl, screaming at the surprised courtroom that he had saved Peru and rejected out of hand the charges. "I totally reject the charges. I am innocent. I do not accept this accusation," he bellowed, before taking his seat...