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...illusions. Culture delivers it, politics deliver it, some art delivers it, technology delivers it - it's very easy to lose contact with life as it really is. And that's why I keep returning to the human body. It's not ghoulishness. I believe that it is the central fact of human existence. And yet it's very obvious how art and religion and many other cultural things try to take us away from the body reality - for obvious reasons. Because if you accept the body, you accept mortality, and that is a hugely difficult thing for people to accept...
...consistent suppliers. In December 2007, he formed a partnership with an affiliate of a Hong Kong - listed gaming company named Amax Entertainment Holdings; Amax raised $250 million through a stock sale, which was then used to provide financing to eight junket operators. In effect, Amax became like a central bank for the high-roller market. Using this financial leverage, the Amax affiliate funneled gamblers to the Crown and in return got an above-market commission, some of which is passed on to the operators...
...Back at PAD central, behind barricades made from coils of razor wire and stacks of tires, Sondhi muses on what he envisions for Thailand's political future. Maybe, he says, parliament could be rejiggered so that leaders from professional blocs sit alongside elected district representatives. Or perhaps, he continues, an unlikely national leader will emerge from the ranks of, say, teachers or human-rights activists. Then, Sondhi excuses himself. He goes and prays to the weather deities to ask them to forestall rain, lest the thousands of protesters at Government House get drenched by the monsoon. That night, Sondhi...
...though, failed to deter many camped out at Government House, who accuse Samak of acting as a proxy for former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed in a 2006 military coup and now faces corruption charges. "We are ready to fight," vowed Jantana Klinchan, a sandwich vendor from central Thailand, as she swayed to a folk song calling for political change. "We are not scared to defend ourselves." That kind of brinksmanship may be just what the PAD wants. Its leaders decry the electoral system in Thailand, alleging that vote-buying in poor rural areas largely discredits any poll...
...July 2007, the LDP lost the majority it held for five decades in the Upper House to the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the opposition party. Since then, Japanese politics has been rife with indecision. The government has been paralyzed by issues ranging from the appointment of a central bank governor to an antiterrorism refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. Tack on a scandal over millions of dollars in lost pensions, a resumption of the gas tax, higher health insurance premiums for the elderly and the recent flailing and recessionary economy and its no surprise that Fukuda's approval ratings...