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...stations, hotels and government offices have all been bombed lately. Since January alone, 17 policemen have been murdered, and a bounty of 200,000 baht ($5,000) has been offered up by a shady Muslim group to encourage further cop killings. And nobody knows why. "It's creepy," says Sergeant Marohsae Moohanan of Sungai Padi Station near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Earlier this month, two members of his patrol were shot dead in an ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward an elementary school; the next, they were getting fired...
...Some cops have applied for transfers, anxious to be posted anywhere except the five provinces. But the south is Sergeant Marohsae's home, and he won't leave. "Of course we're scared," he admits. But he vows: "We will fight back. We have no other choice." If only he knew whom to fight...
...given orders to the likes of Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, Sam Mendes hardly cuts an imposing figure. The soft-spoken, moon-faced Englishman who directed Road to Perdition and American Beauty, which won Best Director and Best Picture Oscars, is more Cambridge humanities lecturer than drill sergeant: he pays attention to his actors' needs. "Tom is freer in front of the camera, wants to improvise more," Mendes explains. "Paul needs to be more precise, to know exactly what you want." Neither man seems a natural choice for the hard-boiled '30s gangsters they play in Perdition, but Mendes relished...
Cohen, who will lead about 30 cadets as a platoon sergeant next fall, says he will teach basic classes, like first aid or shelter-building, to younger students...
...much was even noted in Moscow. The Russian humor magazine Krokodil lambasted Harvard in its Sept. 30 edition for being under the thumb of the U.S. military. It even ran a cartoon on its back page entitled “Mathematics,” which showed a drill sergeant shouting “one, two, one, two” at a group of Harvard students carrying rifles...