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...dislodge him from office, rural masses clung to a leader whose populist policies were seen as evidence of his devotion to the poor. If general elections were held today, Thaksin might very well win, courtesy of a silent majority rising up from their paddies and mountain villages. Just ask rice farmer Mukda Phardthaisong, who lives in Nakhon Ratchasima, part of the country's impoverished northeast. "If Thaksin were to run again, I would want him to be our leader because he gave more attention to grassroots people than to the middle class or government officers," she says. "Poor people...
There's a lot to love about Manning, 30. The Colts are the most entertaining show in football. Manning's darts to favorite target Marvin Harrison are reminiscent of the Montana-to-Rice pairing of the San Francisco 49ers in their heyday. And just watch Manning as he approaches the line of scrimmage before each down, sizing up the defense and then calling or changing the play just before the ball is snapped. To some it seems showy and egotistical, but only a true football intellect could handle the pressure. "I've heard people say, 'Aw, that stuff...
This MATO alliance would include the countries that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on her recent trip to the region, referred to as the "mainstream" and "moderate" Arab nations: Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the gulf states. These nations are as threatened as we are by the rise of Iran and of Islamist radicalism...
Since Sept. 11, the Bush Administration has put a premium on an idealistic and neoconservative agenda of pushing hard for democracy in the region even at the risk of short-term destabilization. It would be nice to continue to say, as Secretary Rice used to declare frequently, that there is no conflict between pushing for more democracy and seeking greater stability in the Middle East. That may be true in the long run. But the real-world present is more complicated, and there are some real trade-offs. An unsettling fact about the Middle East, as the elections...
...Rice's rhetoric has now changed. On previous trips to Egypt, she was firm in preaching the need for faster democratic reform. But that sermon was missing during her latest trip, when she instead spoke of America's "important strategic relationship" with Egypt in what she has called a struggle "between extremism on the one hand and mainstream states on the other...