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...McCargo, the only long-term solution combines firm action against the perpetrators of violence and "substantive autonomy" for the three southernmost provinces. The problem is that, for the rest of this intensely nationalistic country, autonomy is regarded as a back door for separatism, a word whose closest Thai equivalent translates emotively as "tearing apart the land." Such sensitivities make public discussion of bold solutions impossible, laments McCargo. As his book suggests, putting the land back together isn't impossible. Tragically, it isn't imminent either...
Surgical bankruptcy n.-- A term adopted by lawmakers and execs to give the impression that a GM bankruptcy could be quick and painless...
...they are getting better and better,” D’Cruz said.Harvard Writing Project Assistant Director James Herron echoed this sentiment, adding that many times, the preceptors who have been teaching the longest are the ones who earn the highest Q ratings. “Expanding the term limits would enhance the stability of our program since our faculty could better focus on their teaching rather than have to become distracted with a job search just around the time when their teaching is attaining its most mature stage in our program,” Jehn wrote. Harris said...
...first glance, the term sounds like a progressive, coquettish take on the older-woman-beds-younger-man phenomenon. Its representation of females as both claiming and controlling their own sexuality explains why women have rushed to appropriate the epithet as empowering. Inverting the tradition of the sexless spinster, the moniker acknowledges that childbirth does not exorcise a woman’s libido and affirms the sex drive of the perimenopausal...
...typecast role. Morphing a welcome revelation of older women’s sexuality into the mindless caricature of a desperate youth-seeker who continues to have the hots after her hot flashes fade, the brand “cougar” is anything but forward-looking. The term was originally coined by men as a demeaning label for aging barflies who settled for whoever was still conscious at closing time. The “cougar” does not stem from a female fantasy of sexual empowerment, but from a male one: the desire to dominate and control the subversive...