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...political forces, which each claim the mantle of democratic fervor and populist sentiment as their own. Last year, yellow-shirted antigovernment protesters drawn heavily from the middle classes occupied Thailand's seat of power for months and besieged Bangkok's international airport for a week. The Yellow Shirts' aim? To force the then government to step down because they considered the ruling party to be a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 army coup. In December, the courts dissolved that ruling party for electoral fraud, and the opposition, led by current Prime Minister...
...limits of Kevlar. What is more insane than running 200 meters through gunfire to reach the safety? But we did. I felt like Bruce Willis in Die Hard, somehow dancing between the bullets that showered from below and behind. The Taliban can shoot, but they can't aim. We were lucky. All of us were...
...very bold in the kind of things she would do,” says Bell colleague David J. Bishop. “She won’t shy away from a fight.”Murray says she was drawn to Harvard in part with the aim of furthering the SEAS charge to provide its students with an interdisciplinary education, but adds she hopes to expand its reach to ensure all Harvard students graduate with a knowledge of science.“By and large, people who come through Harvard end up being world leaders,” says Murray...
...strike you down... I don’t think that’s useful,” Williamson says. Inspired by a fan who asked her to write a song about abuse, Williamson regularly offers songwriting workshops, advising her students to “come from the personal, [and] aim for the universal.” She’ll be conducting a similar workshop for Berklee students. Before being contacted by Berklee, Williamson had been “filling up the well,” collecting material for future work. “I’m writing...
...corresponding matchups, Harvard dismantled its opponents, dropping only one point over both fixtures. With so ruthless a display in two closely-fought games against Columbia and Cornell—the margin of victory a single point in both—the Crimson team of 2009 will aim for history to repeat itself. If only college tennis was that simple. “[Princeton and Penn] lost their opening matches, but when we come out, we always seem to have a target on our back,” Fish said. “So we always seem to make people play...