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...army. On Tuesday, Red Shirt leaders ended the protesters' three-week occupation of central Bangkok, which left at least two dead and more than 100 injured. On a mission to secure the area less than an hour after the Red Shirts had decamped, the commander of the élite 11th Infantry Regiment of the Royal Guards walked over to a pile of picture frames cast aside in a corner of the makeshift room. Picking up one photograph, he gazed at the image of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, dapper in a pink blazer and pink shirt...
...decline. Its leaders are embroiled in a series of scandals involving both corruption and ineptitude. As a government, it has failed to stem raging violent crime and the world's largest HIV/AIDS epidemic. It has presided over an economic boom that has made millionaires of a well-connected élite but left countless lives unchanged. As a party, it is accused of politicizing the police and the bureaucracy and showing contempt for the constitutional democracy for which it fought so long. (See pictures of South Africa in the run-up to the election...
...only appreciate but master high art - and he credits his economic training as much as his musical skills. "I was convinced," he says, "that the way to genuinely develop a country was to develop its human capital, and that means promoting people's talents everywhere, not just the élite." It's gratifying, he adds, to watch his students' families, who are often as attuned to the value of the Sistema orchestras as any U.S. parent sending a child to Juilliard would be, buck the reputation of Venezuela's poor as uncultured niches, or uncouth people. "They're enchanted...
...fashion's loftiest ranks, the concepts of luxury and discount go together about as well as navy and black, except in one rarefied setting: the sample sale. Alexis Maybank and Alexandra Wilkis Wilson set out to re-create that élite, high-adrenaline environment with their members-only retail site, gilt.com Every day the site plays host to fashion sales, which, just like the real thing, fling open the doors to the current wares of a single designer?Zac Posen, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Alessandro Dell'Acqua?at insider prices ranging from 50% to 70% off. All sales...
Chang, according to a source, is "intelligent and charismatic." Earlier this decade, he started hosting social gatherings at his home, and the parties attracted a following among the North's élite. In Kim's eyes, they became too popular. In 2004, Chang was accused of "fostering factions" and placed under house arrest. "Kim became jealous," says Yang Moo Jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. But Kim remained close to his sister, and analysts believe that she played a critical role in getting her husband rehabilitated. In early 2006, Chang appeared...