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...spirit of Thailand's constitution. The current coup leaders should take a lesson from the events of 1992, when the leaders tried to hang on to the power they had grabbed and were eventually forced to leave in disgrace. Going outside the system to save the system may be somewhat unpalatable to most lovers of democracy, but in the long run it could do more to perpetuate Thailand's democracy. Songdej Praditsmanont Bangkok
...France a massive support system overseen by the state is cushioning the impact somewhat. Even so, sales and incomes have been dropping since 2002, and many producers are under pressure. The result is a growing stratification: good winemakers are investing heavily to get better; bad winemakers are facing the prospect of being squeezed out; and the rest, the vast majority caught in the middle, are scrambling to get better--or get out. "The crisis is having a salutary effect," says Christian Delpeuch, managing director of Ginestet, one of the biggest trading houses in Bordeaux and former head of the region...
...life. It's just that it has not gone the way he planned. We know that because we have been following him now for 20 years, since he first turned up in 1986 in The Sportswriter, Richard Ford's third novel. Back then he was a decent, meditative but somewhat adrift 38-year-old, given to serene reflections that eventually sounded like the defenses of a man whose wife has left him, whose son has died and who does not want to know how wounded he is. In 1995 Ford revisited Bascombe in Independence Day. By that time in real...
With The Lay of the Land (Knopf; 485 pages), Bascombe is 55 and still a Realtor in a booming market, but a brittle, somewhat sour note has crept into his thinking. It's Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with...
...fair, the media has somewhat distorted the semantics of “reason and faith” by portraying the requirement as a religious apology. It is not. No course required will focus on eulogizing the Holy Trinity or touting the wonders of enlightenment and nirvana. The Task Force on General Education merely considers religion an important facet of the world that “Harvard’s graduates will confront in their lives both in and after college” and wants to help students “understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices...