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...Thailand is faced with the possibility that the insurgents are expanding their terror campaign into new parts of the country. "These militants are very provocative and getting more indiscriminate," says Sunai Phasuk, a political scientist at Bangkok's Thammasat University. "Their idea appears to be to try and trap Thaksin and the military into a cycle of violence...
Other institutional support for social life, such as the UC’s funding of House Committees (HoCos), has fallen trap to the same narrow view. According to Dunster HoCo Co-Chair Andrew L. Kalloch ’06, in the past, the UC generously financed HoCo happy hours. “But you couldn’t get that $600 for a cookout or something,” he says. After HoCos asked for fewer restrictions, this semester’s bill gives them the right to do “whatever they want” with the money...
...What makes a difference in people's lives is the small stuff-a mature female goat, a loan of $50, money for school fees, a small community-built dam to trap water for the dry season. The world needs to stop initiating and supporting wars and instead open borders to free trade. We should withdraw support from dictators so that democracy can work. Let's spend our time, energy and resources on making friends and addressing the alienation that encourages terrorism to thrive. Let's stop taking away from others so that they don't have enough while we have...
Greenfield thus sets a trap; viewers who identify with Monica or Aya are then prepared to identify with women who seem to inhabit a different world. “Spring Break, Panama City, Florida” is one of the more shocking photographs. A tan blond in a green thong bikini mimes fellatio on a tan, muscular man. A second man stands behind the recipient and a third holds the woman’s legs, so she is bridged backwards, her face wedged in the first man’s crotch. Tan onlookers laugh and jeer, unlike gallery onlookers...
...women in his life is unforgivable, and Kwon-taek’s film compounds these malefactions by relegating all of its female characters to the status of groupie or prostitute. By placing the maligned female voices in the film in the background, Kwon-taek falls into the same trap that has marred so many other artist biopics—recall Ed Harris’ Pollock...