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...It’s an odd sport to watch in the northeast,” said the Pennsylvania native...
...Southern Thailand is a stronghold for the Democrats, but the northeast region of Isaan is a graveyard. There, Thaksin is a tough act to follow. In None Somboon village, his face still beams from sun-bleached posters left over from a previous election. "Most Prime Ministers never leave their air-conditioned offices," says rice farmer Boon Mithaowan, 49. "Thaksin promised to do things, then he did them." Thanks to him, says Boon, the local irrigation canal was dredged and a new road built through the village...
...wife will divorce me if I go back to politics." So Thaksin will never be PM again? "Nothing can be ruled out," smiles PPP executive Noppadon, who doubles as Thaksin's spokesman and legal adviser. "He is still young and very energetic." Back on the campaign trail in northeast Thailand, a PPP candidate is urging his audience to send a message to Thaksin. "Please clap loudly so that England can hear you," he says. It's a safe bet that England is already listening...
...fight songs. But last summer, she turned up the volume, spending ten weeks with her coach back in Rockdale to craft routines that would perfectly align with the band’s full repertoire.A DYING ARTRockdale, where Liles grew up, is a small farming town about 70 miles northeast of Austin, the kind of place where life revolves around the town square and the football field. The chamber of commerce Web site prominently displays a photograph of reddish brown cattle standing placidly in a pasture.During the three years she twirled with her high school marching band at games...
...states where this view is common. When I go home to St. Louis, it’s hard to ignore the raised eyebrows my Harvard bumper sticker gets. The consensus is that Midwesterners are more comfortable staying in the Midwest, where schools are friendly and unpretentious. This prejudices against Northeast schools like Harvard rest primarily on the perception that the Ivy League is a place for rich New Yorkers with extensive legacy connections...