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...policeman before becoming a businessman and a politician, Thaksin is trying to play both good and bad cop. He has repeatedly pledged to divert more development funds to the south. But he also declared martial law in the area immediately after a Jan. 4 raid on a Thai army base there, ordered more troops to the region, and abandoned a program that emphasized cooperation between the military, the police and community leaders. Instead, Thaksin gave sole responsibility for public security to the police, who are reviled by the Muslims because they consider the cops corrupt and insensitive to Islamic customs...
...Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Now, he is reunited with Crimson Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony). Pita is kidnapped during a shootout with unknown assailants, and in response, Creasy begins his campaign to “do what I do best,” as he puts it to Pita’s mother: “Kill everyone who profited...
...Scott is reunited with Tide costar Denzel Washington for the story of Creasy, an alcoholic former Special Forces operative recruited by his old friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to guard Pita (Dakota Fanning), the young daughter of Mexico City businessman Samuel (Latin heartthrob Marc Anthony...
...most personifies this. The sacrifice of leaving everything she knew?losing her brother-in-law, mother-in-law and husband, then accepting the life that killed them?has earned Sonia a respect and affection in her adopted country that resonate far beyond politics or nationality. Priyanka's Indian businessman husband Robert Vadra describes it simply as "unconditional love." Watching the men and women who turn out in their hundreds of thousands to shout "Sonia Gandhi!" and to throw roses at her, it's hard to dispute that...
...scene had all the hallmarks of a populist uprising. Some 6,000 infuriated owners of Eurotunnel stock converged last week in a massive, hangar-like convention hall near Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport to topple the company's embattled, button-down board. Led by a fiery businessman with multiple fraud convictions and a chairman designate who likes to travel by motor scooter, the rebels then anointed a new board made up of unemployed executives, retirees, a sociologist and one man under investigation for money laundering (which he denies). Welcome to shareholder activism, French style. Their prize: the company that built...