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...draft constitution. Hoping to encourage people to cast their ballots on Sunday, the junta has designated the following Monday a national holiday. But the generals didn't foresee a rather unfortunate scheduling conflict: Aug. 19 happens to be the very day when Thaksin's team hosts its crosstown foe, Manchester United - a match that will be available on cable in Thailand. Thai soccer fans won't want to miss the game, especially given how popular United is in Southeast Asia. No points for guessing which team Bangkok's military brass will be supporting...
...there is an even graver foe than shifting sexual mores and dating practices that romance has to face down. It's an old nemesis, one she has never truly destroyed: money...
...time of the blast, President Musharraf, who has been one of Washington's closest allies in the war on terrorism, was reportedly in Abu Dhabi in a secret meeting with Benazir Bhutto, a long-time political foe, former Pakistani prime minister and opposition leader now living in exile in London. Musharraf is under pressure not only from Islamic extremists based in the lawless frontier lands along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan - a U.S. report issued two weeks ago warned that al-Qaeda and the Taliban had reconstituted in the area - but also from Pakistan's middle-class moderates...
...Voldemort. Harry and his friends Ron and Hermione are on the run from a hostile puppet government, on a secret mission to demolish the barriers Voldemort erected between himself and his demise. For most of the book, the three of them are utterly alone, cut off from friend and foe alike, and the solitude around them lets us see even greater nuance in their already delicately crafted relationships...
...Unlike the games played in the cold war, when the globe was clearly divided into East and West, friend and foe, the dispute between London and Moscow is taking place in a more confusing world. As the Kremlin prepares to take the inevitable retaliatory action against Britain, the motivations of the main players appear mixed. Britain lodged the extradition request for Lugovoi knowing that the Russian constitution rules out the extradition of Russian citizens. The government anticipated this would create an impasse but says the murder on British soil of a British citizen demanded action. The Kremlin, for its part...