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...some of the shine has gone off Thaksin's reputation. In the south, Muslim-majority provinces are wracked by ethnic conflict, violence that Thaksin's critics say has been exacerbated by his administration's heavy-handed military response to unrest, which won international notoriety when 78 people died in police custody after being arrested in Oct. 2004. Opponents condemn Thaksin's placement of relatives in key positions-his cousin, General Chaisit Shinawatra, was first made army chief and then the military's supreme commander, and his brother-in-law Priawpan Damapong serves as deputy chief of the national police...
...close or far the "terror" is from Moscow. A court in the Nizhniy Novgorod regional center last week gave a suspended two year sentence to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, Chair of the local Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, and editor of Rights Defense bulletin. Dmitriyevsky was found guilty of fomenting ethnic hatred, simply because in March 2004, he published an appeal by Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov - later killed by Russian security services - and Maskhadov's envoy in Europe, Akhmet Zakayev...
...first overtook their male counterparts. International applications also increased slightly. There were no major changes in the geographic distribution of the pool, but applications from “African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Native-Americans were all up from last year,” Fitzsimmons said. An exact ethnic breakdown of the pool will not be released until the end of the month.Harvard accepted 821 students to the Class of 2010 last December under its non-binding Early Action program, deferring 2,828 and rejecting 149. Applicants will be notified of Harvard’s decision on March...
...published by the school system this past December, Cambridge would attain a “standard of excellence” if there were no gap between white students and minorities on tests. The “standard of excellence” also mandates equal attendance and discipline rates across ethnic groups...
...Thaksin in trouble? Legally, no (though his son could face a fine). Politically, maybe. Thaksin and his party were re-elected a year ago in a landslide victory. But his administration has since been on the defensive. Ethnic violence in the country's south continues unabated, opposition rallies are getting bigger, and a corruption scandal involving Bangkok's new airport refuses to go away. The Shin controversy adds to the growing perception that Thaksin's aura of invincibility has dissipated...