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...hard enough to communicate when you live in the same house, let alone hundreds of miles apart. That's why, despite the distance, faraway couples actually need to communicate more than those who wake up next to each other every...
...Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade should be much more subdued - although it is scheduled to rain - and the new regulations implemented by city officials in 1998 have minimized the possibility of a balloon rampage. Accidents are still possible, of course. Remember that crazed airborne M&M that tore apart a lamppost...
Nkunda arrives two hours late, sweeping to a halt in front of a sweating crowd of 2,000 in a blacked-out Toyota Land Cruiser flanked by jogging uniformed bodyguards. As Nkunda disembarks, the goons shove and kick reporters and spectators, then stand moon-faced and legs apart around their man, guns slung over their shoulders and pointed down, trigger fingers running along the guard - the pose of elite troops from Fort Bragg to the southern Philippines. Nkunda is a man who manages his appearance carefully, cutting a tall and slightly dandyish figure in combat fatigues, a purple beret...
...little confrontational. It then asks your weight every time you use it, as if to say, "Jeez, still?" Visitors--you get more office drop-bys when you have a weird walking desk than when you have doughnuts--sweetly avert their eyes as the weight question comes up. Apart from that, my week using it was not unlike a regular workweek. Here's the, ahem, rundown...
...Thailand's economy aside, the PAD's fundamental flaw is that it wants to blow things up without having articulated how it will put things back together again. Opposition leaders promise to bring a so-called "new politics" to Thailand. But what that means isn't clear, apart from trying to circumvent the problem of rampant vote-buying by replacing the one-person-one-vote system with a largely appointed parliament. Doing so would ensure that the electorate's pesky habit of returning pro-Thaksin elements to office would cease. But Thailand's reputation as a stable, democratic oasis...