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BILL O'REILLY: Cable-news ratings leader for 100 straight months. That's a lot of doin' it live...
...avoid a crisis, the government will have to exercise the utmost caution in dealing with the demonstrators, says Somkiat Pongpaiboon, a Democrat lawmaker and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, an anti-Thaksin group which staged months of protests last year, including the seizure of New Bangkok International Airport for eight days. (Last week, that group's leaders reported to police to face charges for their takeover of Government House during that round of protests; they were released on bail.) Abhisit said during his speech that only police, and not the army, will be assigned to keep order...
...Only time will tell whether Ankara has accepted that in order to be a "model partner," in Obama's words, it must also implement democratic reforms and address the murkier aspects of its history. On Tuesday, a nationalist Turkish leader said he wouldn't "tolerate the U.S. President's lack of courtesy" in calling on Turkey to reckon with its past, resolve its dispute with neighbor Armenia and reopen their shared border. But for now, "this is the best foreign policy opportunity Turkey has had in years," says Rusen Cakir, a Turkish expert in Islamic affairs...
...decades, the nation's nickname, bel paese (beautiful country), strikes a bittersweet chord. On Tuesday, the aesthetic was one of both gloom and determination as the scale of destruction came more fully into focus. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi received additional calls of condolences and offers of support from world leaders, though he made a point of stating that Italy was equipped to respond to the crisis on its own. Berlusconi said he got an offer of help from President Obama, and the Italian leader suggested that the Americans might help restore some of the historic buildings and basilicas damaged...
...tragic irony is that it was Fujimori's attention to detail that helped make him one of Latin America's most popular leaders of the late 20th century. The son of Japanese immigrants, he emerged out of left field to win the 1990 election and take over a country of 28 million people that was adrift and under siege by Marxist guerrillas. Its annual inflation rate was near 7,600%, and insurgents had three quarters of the country under a state of emergency. Fujimori quickly tackled the hyperinflation, and in 1992 his security forces arrested Shining Path leader Abimael Guzman...