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...while she is no Tom DeLay, the former Republican leader known as "The Hammer" whose hardball tactics once earned him a rebuke from the House Ethics Committee, she has her limits. "I can think of three different instances" where during a vote Pelosi resorted to twisting arms, says White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who served as Pelosi's deputy for five years. "But on the other hand I can think of a thousand different instances where it was never needed because of the work that was done beforehand by listening and hearing and having people understand and finding...
...protesters, known as the Red Shirts for the color they wear, were supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and has fled the country rather than serve a prison term on a corruption conviction. His opponents include the current Democrat-led government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the military, a rival group of protesters known as the Yellow Shirts and, according to some, Thailand's monarchy. Thaksin's followers are comprised largely of the rural poor, and so it was easy to dismiss, as many commentators did, the bloody curse...
...only Buddhist nations that are consumed by the occult. In the past, leaders in indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country, have been known to consult javanese mystics who mix islam, hinduism and animist beliefs. But the most occult obsessed nation in the region is easily Burma. Former dictator Ne Win was so consumed by numerology that in 1987 he demonetized all bank notes and reissued ones only with the number nine or divisible by the number nine. That was his lucky number, but it proved less auspicious for the millions who had their savings wiped out in the move...
...interview with TIME, Dr. Huth paints a portrait of the priest known as Father H., accused of sexually abusing boys in the archdiocese of Munich and Freising, then run by Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict XVI. Father H., says the psychiatrist, "was narcissistic, like other pedophiles, and I repeatedly warned church officials in the 1980s that he shouldn't be allowed to work with children or young people." Dr. Huth says the priest came to him in 1980 after he was transferred to Munich to undergo therapy. As Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Ratzinger approved the transfer from...
...problems extend to the construction of the facilities. Sochi is known primarily as a sleepy beach resort on the Black Sea, not a skiing village. So not only will the Russians have to revamp much of the decaying Soviet infrastructure in the area - everything from roads to power lines - but they must also build six stadiums from scratch, along with an elaborate sports complex in the mountains outside the city. (See a TIME postcard from Sochi...