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...provided they have a voice in the process. But many believe that simply transferring the regulatory role from the police to the Ministry of Culture is a jump cut from the frying pan into the fire, especially in the postcoup climate, when political and social conservatism are on the rise. Ladda counters that the audience is on her side when it comes to choosing a flick. "Nobody goes to see films by Apichatpong," she says. "Thai people want to see comedy. We like a laugh...
...elsewhere, too. The group plans to build on its presence in key deepwater areas from the Gulf of Mexico to Angola, Statoil's largest production site outside Norway. The expected result: while just 14% of the combined firms' output would have been outside Norway in 2006, that figure will rise to 25% in 2009, forecasts Carnegie's Olaisen...
...recognized credential has fallen by the wayside, argues Khurana, an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Instead of producing young professionals, he says, business schools are treating students as consumers and their education as a commodity. Exhaustively researched, Khurana's book examines the birth of the managerial class, the rise of the business school as an academic institution and what he calls its recent deterioration. This failure has created a climate ripe for corruption, and Khurana issues a call to arms for business schools to take back the high ground. --By Tiffany Sharples
...former political prisoner who was delighted that so many young students had joined the protests. "Some were carrying fighting peacock flags, just like in '88," he said. "The message has clearly got through to the next generation." The '07 Generation--monks and laypeople alike--may yet rise again...
...number of farms in the U.S. has been shrinking for seven decades. But the rise of "lifestyle," or hobby, farms--typically about 30 acres (12 hectares) that produce little or no income--promises to halt the decline, say officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Largely because of hobby farms, whose numbers are growing 2% a year and now account for about half of all farms, the population of rural counties is up 12% since 1990--the first gain in such areas since the Depression...