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...says, adding that they are delighted to find that Obama speaks passable Bahasa, the language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia. The international fascination with Obama was on full display when Obama launched his campaign last February and media from more than 60 countries flew in to Springfield, Ill., to cover the event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Foreign-Policy Problem | 12/18/2007 | See Source »

...Birthday (Season 1, Episode 4) Amidst downsizing rumors, Dwight reaches out to nemesis Jim, and the two form an unlikely “alliance”—which ends when Jim tapes Dwight inside a box. Michael tries (and fails) to boost morale with an ill-timed birthday party and painfully inappropriate jokes about layoffs, old age, and Meredith’s hysterectomy. Best Line: Angela, “I think green is kind of whorish.” 2) Christmas Party (Season 3, Episode 10) The forces of good and evil (Pam and Karen) unite in opposition...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nayeli E. Rodriguez | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region - political ones this time. Lumbering onto a campaign stage in this sleepy town is veteran politician Samak Sundaravej, 72, the right-wing firebrand who leads the People Power Party (PPP). The PPP is an ill-disguised facsimile of Thai Rak Thai (TRT), the party outlawed after the Thai military overthrew its leader, the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, in September 2006. The TRT's Bangkok headquarters is now occupied by the PPP, and the two parties' logos are almost identical. So are their policies, such as cheap health care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vote for Nostalgia | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...Battle of Wits Thaksin loyalists see the corruption charges against him as either baseless or simply an inescapable part of doing business in Thailand. They also associate Thaksin with more prosperous times; the junta's shaky grasp of economics - growth has slowed and an ill-conceived currency-control measure in December 2006 led to the biggest one-day loss in the stock market's history - makes it easy to get nostalgic. "The economy was good then," insists taxi driver Narongsak Iamsamorn, 39, who hasn't decided who to vote for this time round. "But now Vietnam is laughing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vote for Nostalgia | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...Want to Take You Higher. After Tina left in 1976, Ike fumbled, but last year he found new fans with his Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues. He was 76. He held one of the mostprestigious posts in academia before a slur, uttered while he was ill, ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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