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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...speech gets only polite applause. "Yasothon people are very hard to please," explains Sombat Phaopaeng, 31, an ice cream vendor doing a brisk trade at the rally on this sweltering morning. "They like Thai Rak Thai, they like Thaksin. But they don't like these particular candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vote for Nostalgia | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...only concerns a small percentage of the student body. The Willey-Snow campaign ran on bringing cable TV to all the dorms, increasing shuttles, and reinstating party grants, which sound great, but so do free personal Zambonis. Unfortunately, we’re too smart for promises of free ice cream and water fountains filled with Dr. Pepper to guarantee a landslide. Finally, Martel-Zimmermann ran on the only truly exciting idea: a UC Standing Army. But since people still come up to me in the dining hall and ask if her running mate is a real person, I was inclined...

Author: By Derek Flanzraich | Title: Why We Didn’t Care Any More | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Here in a Science Center classroom, Amarrah sits beside Woo—tossing her shoulder-length brown hair, drawing an ice cream cone with sprinkles, and chiming in with questions and occasional commentary...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Ticket Out of Poverty | 12/11/2007 | See Source »

...told police he had seen al-Qaeda's No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in the area in the late 1990s. That astonishing claim turned out to be false. But soon the very same tipster was working for the FBI and recording his conversations with a local ice cream-truck driver and his son to see if they were dangerous. The tipster was paid more than $225,000 for his trouble, and after an exhaustive interrogation, the son admitted to authorities that he had attended a terrorism training camp in Pakistan. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...When the brothers arrived at the informant's apartment complex, the police moved in. Minutes later, Eljvir was arrested when he came back from taking Dritan's kids to get ice cream. Shnewer was arrested while waiting for customers in the taxi line at Philadelphia International Airport. When he saw the police approaching, he joked to his fellow drivers, "See, when I hang out with you guys, you get me in trouble." Tatar was arrested at his Philadelphia apartment, where he lived with his wife. The informant, Omar, has vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fort Dix Conspiracy | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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