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...spent much of his self-exile in Dubai, Thaksin is an unlikely savior for a legion of bus commuters. He is everything a Thai farmer or construction worker is not: a pale-complexioned ethnic Chinese with nary a callus on his palms. (Abhisit fits that category too.) But Thaksin knew how to tap into a voter base long underexploited by traditional Thai politicians. His populist policies, which included heavily subsidized health care and microfinancing schemes, delighted the lower classes and helped Thaksin win the largest electoral mandate in Thai history. Economists have critiqued the loan projects, pointing out that much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Why the Reds Are in Revolt | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...redirected traffic to a Hong Kong site--is linked to co-founder Sergey Brin's roots. His parents, Soviet Jews, emigrated from Moscow to the U.S. at the Cold War's height, and Brin has a keen awareness of anything that smacks of political censorship. Google, of course, knew about the compromises one must make to do business in China when it entered the market in 2006. But it seems that Brin decided this year that the company could no longer abide the level of censorship, and hacking, and e-mail pilfering that takes place behind Beijing's Great Firewall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...knew we were onto something with the concept of finding things that could bring Harvard students together, bring us out of our little segmented, compartmentalized, Harvard subcultures together into a unified intellectual community,” he said...

Author: By Nadia L. Farjood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Lectures Draw Crowds | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...they knew that something was amiss as early as Saturday, why did they keep serving food? I think that’s the real issue,” wrote Phoebe Kosman, a publicist for Harvard University Press in an e-mail to The Crimson...

Author: By Sirui Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Virus Closes Faculty Club | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

...quit indulging the priesthood's belief that its earthly power somehow matters as much as Jesus' teachings - one of the most important of which is that earthly power isn't what matters. Just as "packages, boxes or bags" didn't matter that much to the Whos. Dr. Seuss knew better. So should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Up the Dr. Seuss School of Catholicism | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

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