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...along: democracies don't work and civilians can't run countries. Burma is a large, ethnically diverse nation scarred by civil war, and the military has always presented itself as the only guarantee of national unity (while simultaneously running the country into the ground). The Thai coup will bolster its case...
...well be the most damanging of the three. Woodward's book, even with all of its details about Administration infighting and blunders in Iraq, reinforces a notion most Americans already hod, that the war in Iraq isn't going well. The Abramoff revelations, too, simply added more specifics to bolster what Americans already think: that congressmen are too close to lobbyists...
...interaction between humans and elves, a theme which returns in the hobbit books. And at least one Rings denizen - the elf Galadriel - makes a cameo. Some English professors have been frustrated by Tolkien's reputation as a weaver of children's stories, and they hope the new book will bolster their belief that Tolkien is a literary heavyweight worthy of serious academic study. "The perception is that he was just an eccentric don who wrote fantasy," says Alfred K. Siewers, assistant professor of medieval literature at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. But Tolkien was a linguist and a historian...
...reform today is the restructuring of voting power to better reflect changes in economic importance, as well as to give small poor countries more of a say. This is no easy task. A gain for some will mean a loss for others. But if reforms enacted in Singapore bolster confidence in the IMF, everybody wins?and future anniversaries should be happy affairs...
...brain reacts to advertising, brands and products, reactions that for the most part occur subconsciously. The burgeoning ability to understand how the black box of the brain processes images and messages and reaches decisions potentially gives marketers a new tool to fine-tune ads and marketing campaigns, bolster and extend brands and design better products. "It can give valuable information that's not particularly easy to access by other techniques," says Michael Brammer, Neurosense's chairman and co-founder. "It's no surprise that some of these bits of information are interesting commercially...