Word: brotherism
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...afternoon, I go to the trainer's room, get treatment, and practice from about 2:15 to 6:30. After that I eat, shower and finish up my studying. At night I spend about 30 minutes talking to my brother, McKinley, who's someone I confide in. I usually go to sleep around 11:30 p.m. or midnight after relaxing with some "Sopranos" or "SportsCenter." It seems like a packed, loaded day, but it's become routine...
...force the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to resign. They claim the government's attempts to rewrite the country's constitution will wipe away corruption convictions and court cases against the ruling People Power Party and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is Somchai's brother...
...Alfred Hitchcock, and takes pains to entice his readers with an intriguing first chapter. Hitchcock would probably have relished the first scene of Silence of the Grave: a baby at a birthday party quietly chewing on a bone that turns out to be a human rib unearthed by her brother...
...protesters are demanding that Somchai resign and dissolve parliament. Their goal is to prevent Somchai's ruling People Power Party from rewriting the constitution to, in the words of the PAD, "whitewash the crimes" committed by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra "and his cronies." Somchai is Thaksin's brother-in-law. The protesters fear that changes to the constitution will pave the way for Thaksin's return to power...
...Even from self-imposed exile overseas, Thaksin casts a long shadow. Current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat may be a soft-spoken judicial expert, but he also happens to be Thaksin's former brother-in-law. Since August, the PAD has besieged Somchai's offices, forcing him to set up a makeshift administration headquarters in the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airfield. On Nov. 24, the PAD upped the ante, shutting down Thailand's parliament and later overwhelming the old air terminal. Somchai's spokespeople have assured the public that policy-making is going on from a "secret location...