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...Thaksin Effect Shame on your interview with Thaksin Shinawatra [Feb. 12]. TIME allowed Thaksin to tell lies. Thaksin has the audacity to say that the Thai press printed "groundless information" about him and that he "never intervened" in Thai media activities or closed them down. Let the truth be told. Before he came to power, the Thai press was considered one of the freest in the world, ranking 29th in the survey done by Freedom House in 2000. During Thaksin's reign until the Sept. 19 coup, the Thai press fell to 107th last year. Similar conclusions can be found...
...this is judgment passed in haste. For the fact is that there is another, more conformist time, and that is the present. The perpetrators are boutique hotels. Their seconders are the new breed of travel guides, which don't tell you about a destination so much as how to ignore its realities...
Just consider what happened when Galbraith woke from his nap and returned Johnson's call. "Who is that woman?" the President asked, inquiring about the housekeeper who had dared tell him no. "I want her working...
...believes...that it’s much easier to improve something if you have data to tell you what you’re achieving (or not),” Knowles wrote in an e-mailed statement. “So this is a way to obtain some evidence about the consequence of all that we try to do...to improve the way that our students present arguments and positions in writing...
...Hussein? We took him out. The Taliban? We took them out. Bin Laden? We’re going after him. Before that, who was your greatest enemy? The Soviet Union. You guys owe us.” Allison added that if he were in the Bush Administration, he would tell Iran that the time had come for America “to collect.” But Steve Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they have done enough to create an alliance between the two countries. “We supported...