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...BRIDGET WELSH Assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies, Washington D.C. When the Shin Corp. deal happened, that tipped people to say enough is enough. But Thaksin created the situation. He felt invulnerable, dismissed his critics and thought he could push things through with sheer force of personality. The Thais will put up with a lot, and then they can be as hard as anyone else...
...England and is eager to measure itself against a storied program from a baseball hotbed like Florida. But climate and conference concerns play a major role in this meeting. The Gators, to their decided advantage, already have 17 games under their belts, playing in the warmer weather of the Southeast and without the late starting dates Ivy League teams are forced to negotiate...
Professors speculate that the first professorship resulting from the program will be in the Divinity School, and that the program will have an expanded focus on Islam in Southeast Asia...
...Indian Institutes of Technology in Bombay and Delhi. In addition to the business forum, HPAIR will also be holding its annual academic conference in Singapore this year. Founded in 1991, HPAIR has held conferences in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines, but has remained within East and Southeast Asia. Each conference features discussion and debate on important issues facing business and international relations in the region. “We try to create a forum where students and famous speakers can interact,” said Ken Umeki ’06, executive co-chair of HPAIR...
...dogma that has kept it in an intellectual straitjacket since Franklin Roosevelt was President, all sorts of ideas are suddenly on the table. Could prehistoric Asians, for example, have sailed directly across the Pacific to South America? That may seem far-fetched, but scientists know that people sailing from Southeast Asia reached Australia some 60,000 years ago. And in 1947 the explorer Thor Heyerdahl showed it was possible to travel across the Pacific by raft in the other direction...