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...institution is built from its student body and it is the stellar intellectual manpower our students which I love.” The corner of my eye spied one prospective member of ’13 scribble “stellar intellectual manpower” onto her legal pad. But if there’s one quality Eastspring didn’t add to her effusive list of Harvard’s reputed traits, it’s that most Harvard students—even if they can only speak English—are bilingual. For instance, the night after...
...sentence gives a big boost to the People's Alliance for Democracy, a coalition of anti-government protesters whose demonstrations helped bring down Thaksin in 2006. At the Government House on Tuesday, the official site of the PM's offices which PAD has now occupied for two months, protesters chanted, "Put Thaksin in jail," after the verdict was announced. Their ongoing fight against the former PM also helped push Thaksin ally Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej out of power in August. The PAD now claims the current democratically elected government, led by Thaksin's brother-in-law Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat...
...earlier this week that it would begin selecting members of an assembly to rewrite the current constitution within 120 days. The government's original announcement in April that it would change the charter, drafted by a military-appointed assembly and approved in a national referendum in 2007, brought the PAD back out on to the streets after it had been dormant for a year-and-a-half. Thaksin's opponents are worried the government is trying to rewrite the constitution in ways that will invalidate this verdict and the other corruption charges against him, as well as electoral fraud charges...
What began as an unremarkable foray into the world of rowing has in retrospect become a launching pad for a successful seven-year career in the sport for lightweight men’s crew captain Jeff Overington. “I started rowing in ninth grade because a few of my friends were doing it, and they needed a fourth guy to row a four,” Overington said. “We had a great coach and won all of our races, so I decided to stick with it.” Early success...
...Like millions of other Indians emboldened by the country's booming economy, Goyal, 28, invested in stocks, confident that the seemingly sure profits would pad a comfortable lifestyle. The crash in global markets has been hard for him to accept. India's Sensex has fallen 45% from its peak in January; the Goyal family's net worth, built over years, has been decimated in weeks. From $12,000, their portfolio is down to $4,000 - a loss that totals more than half of Sandeep's annual paycheck from his job with a U.S.-based company. Leaving the room, the father...