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...Thailand does indeed have a crippling drug habit. The country currently reigns as the world's largest consumer of methamphetamines and is a major smuggling route for heroin out of the Golden Triangle. Stung by criticism that he has been soft on Burma, where most of the narcotics are produced, Thaksin has pledged no lenience for those supplying drugs to Thailand's 3 million users. Police insist that the bodies piling up are bad guys killed by other bad guys?specifically, drug lords silencing potential informers. The Thai term for such a murder is ka tat torn, or killing...
What’s your worst habit that your roommates have to deal with...
...Bantams have recently made a habit of dashing Harvard’s hopes. Last season, they ended the Crimson’s run at a national title with a definitive 8-1 victory. Trinity also beat Harvard 5-0 at the USSRA five-man team championships two months ago and 8-1 two weeks ago in Cambridge...
...Hitchcock is guardedly optimistic but also acknowledges the risk of Enkhbayar's "big-bang approach," in which so much changes at once. A Western diplomat adds that the country must overcome its habit of merely commissioning papers and gathering endless statistics on every issue: "On a macro level, the government seems to understand the principles of the free market. But it's difficult to see it being implemented on the ground." Still, he adds: "I am convinced that Mongolia can succeed...
...make it a habit in my life—I’m a very staunch liberal democrat—not to get into discussions with conservative republicans because we never get anywhere,” Delaney-Smith laughed. “She loves to go hunting. What does that mean? We don’t associate that with one, a woman, two, someone her age. I tease her about the poor deer just trying to get home to the mother kind of thing. It’s wonderful, it represents what Harvard...