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...vast, mahogany desk sits before a portrait of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, two immense rococo urns and a cabinet of Siamese vases. His work space is clear, save for a Phillips computer and laser printer. The effect of sitting in this room, with its plush oriental carpets and quiet rush of air-conditioning, is a little like being submerged. Voices are muted. Movements seem unnaturally slow. It is as if Thaksin's aura of measured patience radiates outward, catching even his aides, who usually scurry about delivering sheaves of paper and answering mobile phones, in a tranquilizing bubble...
...terms of love, it’s been as equally unfulfilling as the dreary Harvard dating scene. I’ve met someone who’s smart, independent, funny and beautiful—but also someone who, I found out really is a little too traditional to rush into dating an out-of-town guy for three weeks before he heads back to another city, another school, another life. In that respect, Chattanooga reminds me only too much of home...
Maybe some were tricked into coming out West, goaded on by the same visions of utopia that I was. Or maybe some were here before the gold rush, saw the roller-coaster ride pass them by and now are just trying to pick up the pieces. Or at least trying to understand why they couldn’t have been one of the lucky few to make it big. What really matters, though—and what is so easy to overlook—is no one party or group is to blame: everyone here probably had something...
...Most people are decent natured when they learn of a terrible event, and their sympathetic attention flies to the person in distress or peril. But open the story to one of sweaty nights between the sheets or to the possibility of murder by a public figure, and the initial rush of sympathy is closed off as if by a valve. Enter, then, the cable-TV experts in somber fantasizing and rampant "scenarios," and a story that caused you to gulp now makes you salivate...
...actual turnover potential in Congress is relatively small. "If you can design a safe seat for a member of your party, even if he?s a rookie, he?ll have all the perks and powers of the office behind him to be around for a long time," says Mark Rush a political scientist at Washington and Lee University. Incumbents are rarely voted out of office; the only way many of them ever leave is by retiring or dying. So if the congressional lines for a district are drawn in a way that concentrates more voters from one party, the incumbent...