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...prominent parliamentarians. Before Thaksin, Thai Prime Ministers were almost disdainful of television, restricting their appearances to mall openings, military ceremonies and bowing before the King. Thaksin, however, romances the cameras, making himself more available than most Thai pols. Though he hasn't mastered the nuances of the medium?he can sometimes seem defensive when he feels he's not receiving the proper deference?he has taken to it with the easy grace of a natural. If Al Gore is a politician who burns too hot, whose nervousness and eagerness make those viewing him, on TV or in person, squirm with...
Maybe her mother is right and Carolyn Bushell was "just too trusting." She was certainly desperate, 10,000 miles from her home in Duluth, Minnesota, with a divorce looming and little likelihood she would win custody of her three children. Desperate enough to seek help from an Indian spirit medium who promised that the rituals and prayers he prescribed would help solve her marital problems. Desperate enough to travel into the darkness on the night of Nov. 8, 1999, with four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They...
...Carolyn had been to the estate before the night she was strangled. Residents of the row of two-room shacks say she had come several times to see one of their neighbors, a self-proclaimed spirit medium named Shanmugavela. Outsiders are closely watched in this small community of 27 Indian families and some 50 Indonesian workers, and Carolyn's blond hair and Caucasian features made her particularly conspicuous, says Ghulam Hussein, a 53-year-old estate worker. Previously, Ghulam says, Shanmugavela had taken her to a nearby temple devoted to a demigod called Muniandy...
...prestigious private hospital in Ipoh, an old mining town in central Malaysia where the family settled. But by late 1999, she and Raslan communicated mostly by shouting and Carolyn had formed a friendship with an ethnic Indian man named Michael. Police say Michael introduced Carolyn to the spirit medium Shanmugavela, promising that he could solve her marital woes. Both Michael and another man who allegedly participated in the murder are currently serving prison sentences for unrelated offenses and are still under interrogation by the police about Carolyn's murder...
...debate about whether or not the Internet is the "fastest growing mass medium in history" is absurd. Personally, I'd settle for being the second fastest growing mass medium in history. No one argues that web penetration has been faster than another little gadget known as the telephone. The telephone took five decades to reach 90% penetration. Mass mediums don't go away. That's why they're called mass mediums...