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...Thailand's 18th coup d'?tat since 1932, bloodless for a change, and its leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was at pains to present it as the kindest, cuddliest one yet?a "soft coup," it's being called. While smiling Thais handed flowers to soldiers, their Asian neighbors had more somber anniversaries to consider. Eighteen years to the day before the Thai coup, Burmese soldiers shot dead hundreds of prodemocracy protesters in Rangoon; 16 years before that, late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the Philippines under martial law; and another seven years earlier, a general called Suharto seized power in Indonesia. Burmese...
Shuttle: 1. A bus to and from the Quad and Mather. 2. Workplace of Jesse, the kindest man in the world. 3. The vehicle you will chase and miss at 3:44 a.m. even though it’s supposed to leave...
...take a month to arrive, and telephone calls were costly. In the interim, they married others and had children. In 2001, divorced and living with her son in Sao Paulo, Menko posted a message on the website seeking information about Hagen. "I always remembered Mike because he was the kindest, gentlest man I ever met," she says. Shortly afterward, Hagen signed up too. Recently separated, he was surprised and delighted when he read Menko's notice. "I couldn't believe she wanted to hear from me after 30 years," he says. They got in touch immediately. The next year they...
...Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home. He escapes with the unsuspecting , 'other woman' aboard a ship bound for North America...As always, Larson recounts a fascinating and largely forgotten chapter from history with a novelistic attention to narrative, unforgettable...
...president or Pulitzer Prize winner, “I got plastered with him when...” Instead, I think Harvard is such a cool college because I have the chance to be impressed by my peers every day. For example, my roommate is one of the smartest and kindest people I know, equally capable of solving Ec 10 p-sets and romantic problems. My blockmate, Samir, is a brilliant mathematician and will probably run the World Bank someday—that is, if he’s not an ESPN commentator. I never would have become interested in NCAA...