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...father, General Chatichai Choonhavan, Kraisak was indicted on assassination plots against rival generals and fled. Locals in the border region helped his escape, smuggling him to Malaysia. (He returned safely to Thailand two years later and denies the charges, which were never pressed.) In Citizen Juling, he returns the favor. "I had to pay back these people for their help by showing there was at least one Thai who cared about the unwarranted massacres and disappearances," he says...
...traffic fatality statistics that have often been used by opponents of underage drinking to demonstrate such a link, but the answer is still ultimately ambiguous. Given the uncertainty on whether the effects of the current drinking age are positive or negative, we must give the presumption to those in favor of lowering it. There are many legitimate reasons, such as public safety, for restricting liberty, but without a clear case that the 21-year-old drinking age would cause significantly fewer deaths, we should seek to allow those under 21 who wish to drink to do so.A drinking...
...Harvard, Ajayi again thought of giving up football in favor of his childhood passion before settling on the gridiron game...
Furthermore, a citizenry that is generally unmoved by the infrastructure mission means that few local politicians are willing to take it up. Why would a state senator forgo championing funding for social services, education, or welfare, and the valuable voter support that comes with it, in favor of an infrastructure overhaul that most constituents don’t even understand the necessity of? The answer is that he or she would not and do not, leading to a precarious rotting of the infrastructure network that forms the arteries and veins connecting our nation’s vital organs...
...includes elected members of Tibet's parliament-in-exile, nongovernmental organizations and protest groups, comes at a critical time. After the Dalai Lama indicated recently that he had all but given up on negotiations with China over autonomy for Tibet, there has been increasing tension between Tibetan conservatives, who favor continuing talks, and younger radicals, who want to push for a free Tibet. After protests this March in Lhasa that turned violent, the radicals were energized. But since then they have been unable to channel their efforts constructively. "The community is feeling slightly lost and helpless," says Tsering Shakya...