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...Here's another thing: the PPP's policies are strikingly similar to those of its archrival, the Democrat Party. "You'll notice that all the parties are populist these days," says Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a political scientist at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Those populist TRT policies won Thaksin two terms in office and raised the expectations of an entire electorate. "Thai Rak Thai has profoundly changed Thailand," says Thitinan. "People have discovered that they've been neglected. They want better lives. They have hopes and dreams." What he calls "the ghost of TRT" hovers over the polling booths...
...Renowned scientist, professor of theoretical physics at Harvard and author of Warped Passages...
...him—it’s not only music,” said Samer M. Haidar ’08. World-class cello skills would be enough to fill most students’ plates, but not Koh’s. The son of a pianist and a research scientist, Koh, a biochemical sciences concentrator, tries to strike a balance between his artistic interests and his academics. “Usually a musician of my age and level would have a manager, but I refused to have one,” he said; instead, he is working on his degree...
...family man first,” he said. “He tried to get us all into medicine to begin with, but in the end he thought that education was extremely important no matter what direction you went with it.” In addition to being a scientist, MacMahon was also an accomplished classical pianist. According to his son, he almost forwent his career in medicine to study music. Born in England, MacMahon attended the University of Birmingham. He served for two years as a ship’s doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond...
...don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that music is a wonderful thing. But being a neuroscientist might help, at least according to Oliver Sacks. Sacks, it’s true, is no ordinary scientist, and his latest collection of essays, “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” is not simply a dry scientific exploration of the connection between neurology and music, as we might expect from other scientists-turned-writers. Rather, it is an original, elegantly crafted, and inspiring investigation of the distinctly human obsession with all things...