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...Thais love Thaksin for his decisive, can-do style, his toughness on crime and his open-handed policies to boost the economy. But in recent weeks a chorus of critics has put the Prime Minister on the defensive, questioning with mounting intensity whether he's good for Thailand. To reaffirm his popularity, Thaksin has called a snap general election for April 2?a vote that the main opposition parties say they will boycott. When the Prime Minister kicked off his campaign at a rally in Bangkok on March 3, he looked uncharacteristically tentative, at one point even pleading with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Thaksin Stay? | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

After the initial breaking of the story, many felt that the U.S. must actively work to dissociate itself from those who allowed such atrocities to take place. Its citizens expected their leaders to act quickly and decisively to reaffirm that the U.S. would neither practice nor tolerate such a heinous breed of behavior and, moreover, prove to a skeptical global community that this was not the true face of America...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Scary Movies | 2/23/2006 | See Source »

...safe,” there is an implicit suggestion that others are not. And if they say they need a women’s center for this purpose, they suggest that it’s men who are causing the problems. Improper advocacy of this sort will just reaffirm stereotypical beliefs that women’s rights groups are man-bashing sisterhoods, which may drive both men and “not me” women away. More than anything, it is essential to realize that this is a solution that is both temporary and foundational. In a decade...

Author: By Hannah E. S. wright, | Title: Why Can’t Helen Keller Drive? | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

...Oertli added, “Keeping that in mind, we also wanted to ask the administration to publicly reaffirm its policy of non-discrimination and act accordingly...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Greet Army at HMS | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...reflections on love to the second part of the document, which focuses on charity. Here he has a message not just for individual believers, but for the Church as a whole. "As a community, the Church must practice love," he concludes. In practical terms, Benedict uses the document to reaffirm that the Church must not "replace the State," which must be responsible for caring for the needy and creating a just society. "The Church cannot and must not take upon herself the political battle to bring about the most just society possible," he writes. "But this does not mean that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love, Vatican Style | 1/25/2006 | See Source »

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