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...allies and stage a political comeback, the yellow shirts responded by occupying the Prime Minister's office complex for months and hijacking Bangkok's two airports for a week. They only dispersed when a court dissolved the then ruling party as punishment for electoral fraud, allowing an Abhisit-led coalition to form through parliamentary backroom deals. "This is not a government chosen by the people," says Natthawut Saikua, one of the red shirts' top leaders. "Abhisit, get out and return power to the people...
...otherwise excellent article was marred by the phrase "since the U.S. brought democracy to Iraq." While there is no doubt that the U.S. led in terms of both political will and resources, the unfortunate wording does not do credit to those who served from other countries, not least the 170 plus soldiers from the U.K. who died. Martyn Buckley, SELKIRK, SCOTLAND...
...international community rejected U.S.-led efforts to expand protections for a number of endangered and threatened species at a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Of the roughly 40 proposals on the agenda, the most contentious dealt with a prized fish. Japan, which imports nearly 80% of bluefin tuna for use in sushi and sashimi, fought hard against a proposed trade ban. Conservationists warned against prioritizing economic interests over the survival of an entire species...
Davis and Levin were part of a group of friends who gathered this past fall to organize an undergraduate-led lecture series, best described as a student reincarnation of Harvard Thinks Big. Levin emphasized that people of all backgrounds
...first half of the course, Yale jumped out to an early lead from which the Crimson was unable to recover. The Bulldogs led by nine strokes at the midway point of the competition, but Harvard kept the match close...