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...Muslims feel at being marginalized, Thaksin traveled to the violence-plagued region last week to unveil a $300 million economic-aid package. But whatever credit Thaksin received for this development initiative he soon lost when reporters grilled him about another issue galvanizing the south: the disappearance of prominent Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelahphaijit. Somchai, a father of five, had vanished after going to a Bangkok hotel on March 12 to meet a client. A few days later his Honda Civic?showing signs that it had been rammed by another car?was found abandoned in a parking...
...Thaksin at first appeared to dismiss the case, telling reporters that Somchai "just wanted to get away from family problems for a while." Rebuffing calls for a special investigation, he called Somchai "merely a lawyer." But to Muslims in the south, Somchai, 52, is a hero and icon. He has devoted his career to defending their rights against what he felt were "gross injustices committed by the central government against Muslims," says Sittisak Kongluer, a colleague of Somchai's at their small Bangkok law firm. Somchai's high-profile and often-controversial clients include four Thai Muslims accused of involvement...
...think he was about nine-years old and we were driving in a car one time and he said to my wife, ‘I think I’m going to be a lawyer after I go to college,’” said Don Jantzen, the father of Jesse and Cory...
...sure, those ladies who took their grandmothers' advice and married a doctor, a lawyer or an Enron executive may show up for work to "fulfill themselves" or to "expand their horizons." But for most women who, like me, came of age in the '90s, it comes down to dollars and cents, and the calculation is brutal...
...Vera Orozco, the nanny, arrives to begin her 10 1/2-hour shift at the Nevinses'. Cheryl, a labor lawyer for the Chicago board of education, hands over the baby and checks her e-mail from the kitchen table. "I almost feel apprehensive if I leave for work without logging on," she confesses. Between messages, she helps Ryan pull blue Play-Doh from a container, then briefs Orozco on the morning's events: "They woke up early. Ryan had his poop this morning, this guy has not." Throughout the day, Orozco...