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...Village has other flaws besides boring office space. Many athletes snap photos of each other standing before an oversized picture of the Temple of Heaven. The mural is right beside a public toilet, which somehow takes something away from the mystique. And as much as the Olympic Village sports a bacchanal tradition - at the Albertville Winter Olympics in '92, condom machines had to be refilled every two hours - things seem relatively staid. Boo. Since every athlete, in theory at least, could win a medal right now, it makes sense that folks are playing it cool at the moment...
...hear a loud snap at this moment, it's the audience's credulity, as Swing Vote falls from agreeable fable into wan satire. Why 10 days? To show that the electoral process is a shameless sham in which politicians pretzel their principles to get elected. The two candidates come courting Bud. Drawing their own inferences from his cryptic remarks, the Republican (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly plumps for gay marriage, while the Democrat (Dennis Hopper) turns pro-life. The movie says these are decent men forced to reverse field by their Machiavellian advisers (Stanley Tucci as, essentially, Karl Rove; Nathan Lane...
...been widely seen as the final chapter in an ongoing showdown between the AKP and the secularist establishment, particularly in the military and the courts. A military attempt to stare down Erdogan last year over the nomination of his own party's Abdullah Gul for President backfired: Erdogan called snap elections and was returned to power with 47% of the vote, an even greater margin than from when he was first elected. This time, it was the turn of the judiciary to lead the charge for secularism...
...once, talk of seismological upheavals may be apt. With every new reversal suffered by Labour come fresh questions about the Prime Minister's future. Ever since last fall, when he dithered over holding a snap election and then abandoned the idea, his popularity has been on a downward slide, both with the general public and within his own party. He doesn't have to face voters until 2010, since Tony Blair was only 25 months into a fresh five-year term when he handed over the reins to Brown last June. Brown now hopes to use the remainder of that...
Pema, the Shugden spokesperson, observes correctly that even if the Dalai Lama is not behind the current Shugden woes, "if he wanted it to stop, all he'd have to do would be to snap his fingers." Yet no one expects that. Most scholars e-mailed for this story were hesitant to line up behind the Shugdenpas, partly because of insufficient data, partly, perhaps, because of a feeling that this was a Tibetan issue ("these are monk wars," said one), partly because many are themselves deeply invested in the Dalai Lama, and partly because of the whiff of fundamentalism...