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...Tuesday, Republican Acting Gov. Jane M. Swift announced she would not seek election because of family commitments. Mitt Romney entered the race hours afterward. Romney, a former Republican senatorial candidate and 2002 Olympic organizer, is also a 1975 graduate of the Harvard Law and Business Schools...
...expected to fly as heroes should.) Klee found authority absurd; he didn't viscerally hate it, like the Dadaists, but he poked fun at it, as in The Great Emperor Rides to War, 1920, an absurd military apparition that seems to be wearing a mosque on its head. Only afterward do you realize how like the spiked helmet of the recently defeated Kaiser Wilhelm this piece of costume...
...make much sense in the new war. The CIA has largely stayed out of domestic intelligence gathering, in part because of limits set by Congress in the '70s to protect citizens from the agency's excesses, such as dosing unwitting subjects with LSD. During the cold war and afterward, the Pentagon, FBI and CIA split the responsibility for tracking foreign threats, but each agency kept the others in the dark about what it was doing. That division of labor failed completely in spotting clues to Sept. 11, so it's good news that in the race to stop the next...
Only later do we learn that minutes before the aircraft departed, airport authorities threw Lek and Tip out, presumably for having no ID cards. Days afterward, we make an even more wrenching discovery: the mothers of both girls were in on the deal from the start and had received regular payments from the brothel, which might make an unexpected return home an unhappy occasion...
...Thaksin has been antagonistic to the press since he entered politics in 1997. Journalists who insisted on probing his business empire got a taste of Thaksin's vaunted temper. While a candidate for Prime Minister, he bought a controlling interest in the country's only independent television station, ITV. Afterward, 23 staffers who had reported on his problems with the National Counter Corruption Commission were fired. When Thaksin was on trial for withholding information about his finances, he requested that reporters refrain from criticizing the government for six months, saying it would boost public spirits. Editors have charged that outlets...