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...airline - in the midst of a turnaround - hailed the 43-year-old as "the very best person for the job." Walsh's main accomplishment was rescuing Aer Lingus from bankruptcy after taking over the controls in late 2001. Now "it's the only European flag carrier making money on short-haul" regional flights, points out Joe Gill, research director at Goodbody Stockbrokers in Dublin. Walsh clipped Aer Lingus' staff numbers by about a third and trimmed costs, part of a "culture to pare everything down to the bone," says Gill. But the ex-pilot failed to push through further...
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizballah, was so struck by the daily street protests unfolding on the streets of Beirut--full of flag-waving demonstrators demanding Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon and an end to foreign meddling in the country--that he decided to hold a party of his own. He summoned his supporters to Beirut last week for a counterdemonstration, which drew hundreds of thousands of Shi'ites and other pro-Hizballah Lebanese into the capital's Riad al-Solh Square. Addressing the crowd from a balcony above the square, Nasrallah praised Syria, denounced the U.S. and made...
...militant group. They have also long been concerned to avoid being seen as a proxy of Iran or anyone else, and from a distance, Tuesday's crowds were indistinguishable from an anti-Syria rally because instead of the yellow banners of Hizballah, their supporters bore the Lebanese national flag, just as the anti-Syria protestors...
...about national identity in more than half a century. In the World War II era, the military Phibunsongkhram regime rallied under the slogan "Thailand for the Thais." Today, the country seems mesmerized again by nationalism. Schools and colleges have been ordered by the Ministry of Education to display the flag more prominently and play the national anthem at a higher volume. "Thai-ness" is once again a useful political concept: in early February, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's populist nationalism lifted his party?Thai Rak Thai, or Thais Love Thais?to a landslide election victory, and made criticism...
...future social historians will thank Cornwel-Smith for recording how you toughen up a Siamese fighting fish before a bout. (Rather meanly, you "just stir the water.") Encyclopedic in scope, Very Thai is an unapologetic celebration of both the exotic and the everyday, and an affectionate reminder in these flag-waving times that perhaps Thais care less for state-mandated notions of national identity than their politicians think. They're much too busy being themselves...