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...shirt leaders know their popularity depends on fanning the flames of class rage. Even though some of their supporters are rich entrepreneurs who profited during Thaksin's rule, they have reached into the language of Thailand's feudal past and characterized the current political crisis as pitting the phrai against the amataya. Roughly translated, that's a conflict between the serfs and the aristocracy. Abhisit struck back on local TV: "Thailand no longer has [such] social classes. People are equal under the constitution, although they have unequal opportunities." But the underclass isn't convinced. "The poor work hard and contribute...

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

...does one fulfill--or know when one has fulfilled--Obama's goal of 'college and career readiness' for every child by 2020? That gauzy goal resembles the 1994 goal that by 2000 ... every child would start school 'ready to learn.' Is 'college and career readiness' one goal...

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

...movies. But you can't just do so and watch in an instant. Forty-five minutes after ordering the director's cut of Donnie Darko, I gave up and went to sleep, letting that movie and Dune (yes, I'm a geek) download throughout the night. But you know what? After the dark night passed, joy came in the morning. Me and my iPad are off to celebrate Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and My iPad: The First 24 Hours | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...first game, we didn’t play a team game,” Brown said. “To know that had we maybe not made those errors, we would have been closer in that game, definitely gives us confidence—especially because we’re hoping to play Cornell again...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Splits Twinbill with League Power Cornell | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...society in general. Those arguments - We're no worse than the rest of you! - effectively surrender claims to moral superiority, let alone divine direction. As a Catholic, I believe in the workings of divine grace, that in the end light defeats darkness; but as a reasoning human being, I know that no mortal institution has direct access to it. If the Holy Spirit guides cardinals when they choose a Pope, where is it when bishops are moving ordained rapists from parish to parish...

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

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