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...military's actions. But last week he agreed to meet a group of Bangkok academics and human-rights advocates pushing for more sensitive policies in dealing with the region's woes. One suggestion he has embraced is a plan to mobilize the nation to fold 62 million origami paper "peace" doves that will be dropped on the south by military aircraft on Dec. 5, the King's birthday. Since hearing the royal family's speeches, Thaksin "has adopted a different tone," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a security and defense analyst at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Bangkok...
...each morning in camp assumes a brisk urgency. Bags must be repacked and the rafts reloaded. Keeping our bags on the raft and out of the water is one thing; keeping the water out of our bags quite another, and much worried attention is paid to goosenecking them, an origami-style process that involves repeated twisting and tying. A dry night's sleep depends on such art. The campsite must also be kept as pristine as possible, which, as Pat explains to a shocked group on our first night, necessitates the use of a pile of clear plastic bags sitting...
...doubted that anyone would bust me, but I still ended up jogging across the street to a convenience store and buying a box of Tic Tacs I didn't want just to break a $20. Then I spent the next five minutes folding eight $1 bills into stick origami and squeezing them into the sneering slot...
...enigmatic duo from down under who drop their pants but not their sunglasses, the creators promise audiences a theatrical demonstration of “the ancient Australian art of genital origami.” The two performers’ genitalia are projected via video onto a giant three-storey screen as they perform dozens of “installations” or “dick-tricks.” Highlights include the “Loch Ness Monster,” the “turtle,” and for the benefit of Yalies everywhere...
...Alexander McQueen fashion shows, everyone aims to turn heads, whether they're McQueen groupies in never-worn-before pieces or editors in origami hats or vintage polka-dot bow-tie blouses. But at last fall's show, the figure most eyes followed was that of a handsome stranger who arrived with Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Conde Nast International, was greeted warmly by Domenico De Sole, CEO of Gucci Group (owner of the McQueen label), and shown to an envied front-row seat. The fashion plebeians who didn't recognize him or his power-broker companions couldn't miss his three...