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...Even Buddhist monks and temples have been targeted. Across the south this year, four monks have been murdered (one was beheaded) and temples have been bombed, burned and shot at. Soldiers now routinely accompany monks on their morning alms round. At Pattani's Lak Muang temple, barefoot monks pad past sandbagged bunkers while soldiers keep fit and earn merit by jogging around a giant whitewashed stupa. But monks are quietly fleeing, say local Buddhists, and some soldiers have taken leave to be ordained as monks in a desperate attempt to bolster monastic numbers...
...indeed, a save, one made not with Tobe’s glove, stick or pad, but with his head. But it was in keeping with what the sophomore transfer has shown in practices all this year: Tobe can guard the goal...
...million from outside investors. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990, and plug some of the gaps in its accounts; at the time it had a market value of around €300 million. But as early as 1993, Parmalat allegedly began to invent financial transactions to pad its balance sheet. Investigators in Milan and Parma agree: if it hadn't cooked the books, Parmalat would have posted losses every year from 1990 to the end. Instead, it posted profits, masking its problems with a mixture of fictitious transactions and aggressive acquisition; starting in 1992, the group began snapping...
Glazer serves as chair of the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), a job that has historically served as a launching pad for the council presidency. Three of the past four presidents have held the position...
...used to think I was the only one who had trouble memorizing all the buttons on video-game controllers and figuring out which one to push when. Now I know better. How else to explain the success of EyeToy games for PlayStation 2? EyeToy games replace the handheld game pad with a video camera that translates your body movements into onscreen action. Since the first EyeToy game went on sale last year, Sony has sold more than 4 million units worldwide (including 1 million in the U.S.). To put that number into context, it is about as many units sold...