Word: bakers
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...Samak, voted the most hated civilian in a newspaper poll after Black May, retain such solid support? Chris Baker, co-author of Thaksin: The Business of Politics, says Samak is a hit among lower-middle-class citizens - they admire his strong persona and see him as someone who gets things done. Small shopkeepers, taxi drivers and day laborers love tuning in to Samak's television and radio political talk shows - and his immensely popular cooking programs - to hear him sound off and bash others. "He's entertainment," Baker says...
...What do you miss about John Lennon and George Harrison? -Curtis Baker, Sagerton, TexasFriendship. Hanging out. Working together. The love-I miss that. We were brothers. It was like losing brothers...
...remains undented, and with his loyalists in the PPP tipped to win more seats than any other party, his political clout is still a force to be reckoned with, even from self-imposed exile in England. "This election is a proxy war between Thaksin and the coupmakers," says Chris Baker, co-author of Thaksin: The Business of Politics in Thailand...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals. It would take another 100 years for the Dramatic Arts to be taken even remotely seriously in the academic sense. While Shakespeare began to be taught in the intervening century, it was a purely literary study, not debasing itself to performance. In 1905, George Pierce Baker came to Harvard and starting teaching a playwriting class where he taught the likes of Eugene O’Neill. More significantly, he started the Harvard Dramatics Club in 1908. According to Brustein, Pierce was offered an alumni donation of $1,000,000 to build a theatre at Harvard and allow...
...with most health problems, the key is prevention, and the effort cannot be left up to the individual - parents ought to be the first to take responsibility. Dismissing childhood obesity as baby fat or relying on a kid's will power is simply not a solution, says Baker. "We cannot consider it just to be a cosmetic problem. It's a health risk problem," she says. "We can no longer sit back and wait, and think a child may grow...