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...Despite their failure to prevent the prime minister and his cabinet from meeting, PAD members said they would persist in their campaign to bring down the democratically elected government and prevent Thaksin's potential return. "We can't give into the devil," said Vimla Sarapai, a 58-year-old PAD supporter as she joined the demonstration at Bangkok's international airport. "We need change in Thailand. We need an Obama for Thailand," she said...
...mostly eschewing wonkiness in favor of stressing common bonds. Its series of "modest, pragmatic recommendations" are couched to show that the U.S. and Latin America are natural bedfellows. It's not that we have a moral obligation to turn the other cheek when Hugo Chavez dubs George Bush a "devil," or when pockets of America inaccurately assign blame for U.S. unemployment levels on Latin migrants. It's that doing so will, for example, help both parties weather the global economic crisis. Some of these recommendations (like the U.S. pivoting on its Cuba policy) may not take, while others rehash what...
...Although Holder did not subscribe to the devil theories of Clinton's lawyers, he questioned whether Starr's deputies had manipulated him into approving the Lewinsky probe. As his view of the case darkened, so did his relationship with Bennett, a decorated career prosecutor who had worked with Holder at the DOJ when they were young lawyers and played pickup basketball together. Bennett had come to believe his old friend was undermining the investigation. The mutual bitterness came to a head at a March 20 meeting in Holder's office...
...years later, when Silverman was in the midst of writing a novel, Sternberg gave him a call. Sternberg wanted to buy the Devil Rays, and he wanted Silverman on his management team...
...fact that Zanu-PF needs the MDC's support to stay in power creates a dilemma for the opposition, which risks diluting its own popular legitimacy by joining a government over whose decisions it would have limited influence. "[The MDC has] the choice between the devil and the dark sea," says Elinor Sisulu, a Zimbabwean analyst and human rights activist. "Already people are saying that Zimbabwe is in this mess because these politicians are bickering over a Cabinet post...