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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other unity-building efforts have fallen flat, like a project announced by the PM's office on Sept. 15 to induce all Thais to sing the national anthem every evening for a month and a half. The initiative faced ridicule in the national media, but it was presumably designed to placate the nationalist army faction to whom Abhisit's administration is beholden. Thailand also continues to court international criticism for the strict application of lèse-majesté laws that dissuade open discussion of the royal family and succession issues. Under Abhisit's tenure, the number of high-profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man in the Middle | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...love songs. But the wistful melody and the subtlest vocal performance of Vedder’s career turn the innocuous lyrics into an achingly beautiful song.No longer does the tempo alternate only between slow and fast, either. “Among the Waves” is a midtempo anthem whose only real precedent is 1998’s fan favorite “Given to Fly”; like that song, “Among the Waves” has tempered verses that lead into a soaring refrain that perfectly enunciates a vision of triumph.Perhaps the frenzied vocals and indelible...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pearl Jam | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...which Will Holt had written new lyrics, gave them their first hit. It was followed by Seeger and Lee Hays' "If I Had a Hammer." The group changed the phrase "all my brothers" to the more ecumenical "my brothers and my sisters" and helped make the number an anthem for the decade's civil-rights movement. Their rendition was a highlight of the 1963 March on Washington; another was Martin Luther King Jr.'s delivery of his "I Have a Dream" speech. Unlike the studiously apolitical Kingston Trio, PP&M attached their celebrity to progressive causes - and would continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk's Beloved Princess: Mary Travers Dies at 72 | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Yeah, yeah, we get it, you had a great football team in the '70s. Doesn't make it your birthright to complain about the program at every opportunity until (if?) you win it again.  Also, how can you seriously play "Sweet Home Alabama" before the national anthem at football games...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

...Yeah, yeah, we get it, you had a great football team in the '70s. Doesn't make it your birthright to complain about the program at every opportunity until (if?) you win it again.  Also, how can you seriously play "Sweet Home Alabama" before the national anthem at football games...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

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