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...down a scene in a movie in which the Pom Wonderful bottle would have been used as a bong. When I asked if people at the company expected to read what I wrote before it was printed, I was relieved to find out that they are just given a general idea of what a scene is about and don't get to see a final cut. Product placement was going to do less damage to my work than my editors...
...then there was South Korea's Park Chung Hee. A general who took control of the country in a 1961 coup, he ruled, often with an iron fist, for 18 years. Yet he was deeply moved by South Korea's destitution. In the early 1960s, the country's per capita income was just over $100, and the economy depended on American aid. Park, a virulent nationalist, vowed to do something about it. "I had to break, once and for all, the vicious cycle of poverty and economic stagnation," he later wrote...
After losing the 2008 elections, several prominent PP insiders - including Angel Acebes, who was Interior Minister at the time of the attacks and served as Secretary General in the four years that followed - resigned their offices, and the acrimony began to dissipate. And the Socialist measures that the opposition found so objectionable a few years ago? "All those changes - the law against domestic violence, gay marriage - the majority of Spaniards have accepted them," says Savater...
...women's rights activist. "They damaged my kitchen door - they were breaking in and entering," she said moments after her release from an Islamabad women's police station. "It is a sad day for Pakistan when the people we marched with for democracy against the dictatorships of General [Mohammed] Zia ul-Haq and General Musharraf arrest human-rights activists...
...London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "These are not actions that one normally associates with an elected government that has flaunted its democratic credentials." While she rules out a coup, Shaikh believes that Zardari's latest maneuvering will "create great consternation in the senior ranks of the army." General Ashfaq Kayani made a surprise visit to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday to discuss the turmoil. "I suspect what might happen is an attempt by the military to orchestrate events in a way to curb or control Mr. Zardari's powers," added Shaikh. "Patience appears to be running...