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...Thai election, will not appear on the ballot. Although lower-level TRT figures are free to form a new party, TRT's leadership coterie appears to have been sidelined from politics by the five-year ban. Even before Wednesday's ruling, Thaksin, from his overseas exile, had vowed to quit politics. Many Thais, however, believed he might attempt a political comeback. Last month, the former Prime Minister was awarded his first leadership position since the coup, being named head of Thailand's Professional Golf Association - hardly a position of great importance. But even that token presence in Thai society...
...prisons, a kilo of cocaine bought for $2,000 in South America can fetch around $25,000 in Europe - some prisoners were paid $4,000 for every kilo they carried, and could cart 10-12 kilos on any given trip. The pay scale makes it a tough profession to quit, even for middle-class twenty-somethings from the industrialized world for whom the price may include doing time at Los Teques...
...despite the health of its democracy, Israel appears unable to rid itself of a leader whom its citizens almost universally see as incompetent. Olmert shows no signs of being ready to quit, or of being forced out in the near future. With approval ratings as low as 3% even before the publication of the damning report, you might think the whole country would be up in arms for him to go. But the crisis over Olmert may be symptomatic of a deeper shift: The Israeli press and civil society groups have made much of the fact that the country...
...Kids who quit school don't just suddenly drop out; it's more of a slow fade. Typically it begins in the ninth grade, if not earlier, often when life hits a particularly nasty patch and racking up credits in class no longer seems especially compelling or plausible. Ernestine Maisonet started fading in eighth grade, when the grandmother who had raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived...
...Blurb bookstore, keep 100% of the markup (above Blurb's base price) and never have to see their books in the remainder bin. "In traditional distribution, you'd see $1 a copy," Gittins says. "A lot of Blurb authors are seeing $10 a copy. This is not necessarily quit-your-day-job money, but it might be new-telescope-lens money. It can help fund your passion." Kaufmann makes only a buck or two for each copy of her book that's sold at Blurb's online bookstore (it's priced at $42 in hardcover, $35 in softcover). The real...