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...flip-flops and a Britney Spears T shirt. He strode through the shattered glass doors of Thailand's embassy in Phnom Penh and made his way to a well-appointed interior office. There he joined a group of boys who had thrown a painting of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej to the floor. The boys didn't hesitate. The picture was torn and stomped on. "Thailand is no good," they shouted...
...Commission of Fine Arts, who oversaw the construction of Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial; in Boston. During his 23-year tenure as director of the National Gallery of Art, Brown greatly expanded its collection and the building itself, adding the gallery's angular East Wing. RECOVERING. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ, 74, Thailand's King, after a hernia operation; in Bangkok. King Bhumibol, on the throne since 1946, is the world's longest reigning monarch. FIRED. RUSSELL MILLS, 57, publisher of the Ottawa Citizen, for publishing articles critical of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chr?tien and calling for his resignation; in Ottawa. Mills...
...cast) he won, the PM has told his detractors to support him or shut up. But last Tuesday, Thaksin got a very public dressing-down from a man he doesn't dare tell to keep quiet, a man with a mandate infinitely more impressive than his own: King Bhumibol Adulyadej...
...executive office in Bangkok's government House is a rectangular room painted a cool shade of blue. Thaksin's vast, mahogany desk sits before a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, two immense rococo urns and a cabinet of Siamese vases. His work space is clear, save for a Phillips computer and laser printer. The effect of sitting in this room, with its plush oriental carpets and quiet rush of air-conditioning, is a little like being submerged. Voices are muted. Movements seem unnaturally slow. It is as if Thaksin's aura of measured patience radiates outward, catching even his aides...
...city of Agra. In Cambodia, hundreds of tourists and Cambodians were protected by 30,000 soldiers from possible Khmer Rouge attacks, as they gathered to watch the eclipse against the backdrop of the fabled temples of Angkor Wat. And in Thailand, Princess Sirindhorn, daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, led tens of thousands in an observation ceremony broadcast live on television...