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...strong showing, its leaders spent Monday bargaining with smaller parties to forge the legislative coalition it will need to form a government - a task the Democrats will try to make as hard as possible for them. Reports Monday suggested that some smaller parties may be reluctant to join with the PPP, believing they can get a better deal from the Democrats...
...along class, regional and religious lines. The man who most successfully exploited these divisions was Thaksin, the patron of the PPP now living in self-imposed exile in England. Using his leverage as one of Thailand's richest men, he successfully wooed lawmakers from several other political parties to join his Thai Rak Thai party in the late 1990s. Thai Rak Thai (TRT) dominated Thailand's political landscape for five years by appealing to the nation's rural poor who form the majority of voters, particularly in the northeast, with populist policies including cheap credit and debt moratoriums...
...courts; other members of the PPP have predicted Thaksin could return by Valentine's Day. But Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University, says that Samak will have to keep Thaksin off the agenda - and out of power - if he wants to win over parties to join his coalition. "Samak will need to be pragmatic and flexible. He may have to listen to Thaksin, but he also has to listen to civil society," Panitan says. As he sets about negotiating with other parties to form a government he hopes will last, Samak would do well to bear in mind...
...realignment" process follows, during which those in "nonviable" groups abandon their candidate for another or try to cajole others to join them (thereby bringing them...
...Graduate of School of Education alumnus will join the Harvard University Arts Museums (HUAM) in a newly-created position as its first Director of Education—charged with getting a wider swath of Harvard to the University’s collections. Ray Williams will assume the newly created position on Jan. 14, and will be responsible for reinventing and structuring the Department of Education at HUAM. “One of his primary tasks will be to figure out what kind of Education Department we need,” said HUAM Director Thomas W. Lentz. “What...