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...last head of state to run into trouble. Many of the former Thai Rak Thai lawmakers who were not banned by the Constitutional Court grouped together under the banner of the People Power Party, which later won power in a December 2007 election. (The party is widely seen as a proxy for Thaksin; the current Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej initially described himself as Thaksin's "nominee.") While Thai courts deliver verdicts on Thaksin and his circle, Samak also faces a host of legal woes and social unrest. He is currently appealing a conviction for defamation, being investigated for a contract...
...August, when the city marked one year before the Games, a few groups held protests. Reporters Without Borders rallied outside the offices of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee with posters of the Olympic rings as handcuffs to protest the jailing of journalists. Students for a Free Tibet unfurled a banner on the Great Wall outside the city. The police response to both was seen as clumsy and heavy-handed, a sign that for all Beijing's infrastructure preparation, Chinese authorities are still uneasy with demonstrations and ill equipped to handle them under an intense media spotlight...
...Student for a Free Tibet, was arrested last August as she tried to make her way to a countdown event in Tiananmen Square. Tethong, who had been blogging in China about the status of Tibetans, was expelled from the country along with six foreign activists who hung a banner that read, "One World, One Dream; Free Tibet 2008" on the Great Wall. She says Tibetan activists will try again to conduct public protests during the Games. "For us it's a historic moment," she says. "It's an opportunity to raise the Tibetan crisis of human rights and freedom...
...government-sponsored tour to Europe, where, in Amsterdam, he met a beautiful Eurasian music student of German-Indonesian origin named Rose Pandanwangi. She too was married, but upon her return to Indonesia they began an affair. In 1955, Sudjojono was elected to Indonesia's first parliament under the banner of the PKI, which had become part of a shaky coalition cobbled together by President Sukarno. A few years later, Sudjojono disclosed his affair with Rose to PKI officials, and declared his intention to marry her. He had eight children from his first marriage by this time, and Rose had three...
Peter Norman was the other guy in one of the most famous images of the 20th century. As The Star-Spangled Banner rang out during presentations for the 200-m sprint at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the Australian silver medalist gazed at the flag rising in his honor. Behind him, history was being made. Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the occasion to protest their country's treatment of African Americans, each raising a gloved fist in the Black Power salute, a gesture of solidarity and defiance. Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee, U.S. authorities sent...