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...Obama, were born after the start of the Civil Rights movement and attended elite colleges. Cassandra Butts, a law school classmate of Obama's at Harvard and a former top aide to former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, will play a key role in his domestic policy, while Susan Rice, a former Clinton State Department official, has been advising him on foreign policy. And perhaps the most important of his African-American supporters is a woman who goes to his church in Chicago and who has praised him publicly - Oprah Winfrey...
Lunch for Jacqueline N. Nkuebe ’10 is usually a reserved affair, normally comprising small portions of rice and chicken salad. But during finals weeks, there’s no holding back. “Yesterday, before my Life Sciences final, I had onion rings, fried chicken tenders off the charts, and a brownie—maybe it was two brownies—and some cookies,” Nkuebe said. “I was going to go get some ice cream after that, but I ran out of time before my exam...
...business - this in a country whose entire population is 65 million. Roughly 800,000 of those sex workers were underage; most came from poor farming households in Thailand, as well as nearby Burma, Laos, Cambodia and China. Some came willingly to escape a life in the rice paddies. Others, of course, were sold into the business. Did I mention? Prostitution is technically illegal in Thailand, although you wouldn't know it to walk the streets of Bangkok...
...military junta that rules Thailand these days might do well to remember the ways of the nation's diplomatically skilled forebears. Just as before, Thailand's economy is dependent on negotiating global forces-the country is the world's No. 1 exporter of rice and relies on tourism and foreign direct investment to power its growth. Yet in recent weeks, the Cabinet appointed by the ruling generals, who in September overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, has unveiled economic measures that have left foreign investors distinctly uncharmed. In December, to combat an appreciating currency that was irking Thai...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced plans to hold informal meetings with Israel and the Palestinians within the next month to revive a 2003 road map for peace...