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...Thailand's 18th coup d'?tat since 1932, bloodless for a change, and its leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was at pains to present it as the kindest, cuddliest one yet?a "soft coup," it's being called. While smiling Thais handed flowers to soldiers, their Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese...
THAI ARMY OFFICIAL, reading a message on Thai television to request the people's "cooperation" after the military ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup...
...Taste of Freedom Thank you for Chiu Hei-Yuan's viewpoint "Growing Pains" [June 26], on Taiwan's political mess. As a native of Taiwan, I have always been very proud of our bloodless transition from Chiang Kai-shek's authoritarianism to full-fledged democracy. Democracy means nothing less than all the political, press and religious freedoms we currently enjoy. It certainly does not mean having a totalitarian dictatorship appoint an unelected administrator for us. But the Chinese Communist Party thinks it is possible to impose such fake democracy-its "one country, two systems" policy-on Taiwan. The party...
...what makes The Sopranos a great, not just entertaining, show is that the most disturbing stories are about Tony's casual, selfish, bloodless cruelties. The ruin of another person is better than a slight inconvenience to him, and no matter how many promises he breaks or lives he destroys, he always believes himself more sinned against than sinning. He has toddled through the series like an overindulged two-year-old, protected from the consequences of his actions by perverse fate, and protected from their moral consequences by his power of rationalization. After he shafts a helpless civilian in a business...
...revolution, where the 20th anniversary celebrations were to take place. At the shrine they would be met by a contingent of Catholic bishops, and a Marine general would read a statement withdrawing support from Arroyo's government. The bishops, according to Saycon, had one request: that the action be bloodless...