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...became all the more determined to make this idea a reality.”Nineteen years later, Kopp’s dream has not only been realized, but has gained recognition and respect. This year, BusinessWeek named TFA one of the best places to launch a career, Kopp was named one of 2008’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, and Education Week wrote about two TFA alumni who advised the Obama campaign.Last year Teach for America received a record number of 24,700 applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty...
Will it strut or stumble? When U.S. forces began to pull out of Baghdad and into suburban bases in 2005, the vacuum was filled by al-Qaeda bombers and armed Shi'ite and Sunni militants, who fought a two-year civil war. Now, however, the main vectors of sectarian violence have been turned back, weakened or co-opted. Although there has been no meaningful political or social reconciliation between the sects, their representatives in parliament have learned to form expedient alliances, which will doubtless continue as the parties jockey for power in post-occupation Iraq...
...away the electoral fraud cases against it, and convictions and corruption cases against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Somchai is Thaksin's brother-in-law, and Thaksin is widely believed to be the real power behind the party. The former prime minister is living in exile, having fled a two-year jail sentence on a conflict of interest conviction...
...Government spokesman Natthawut Saikua said Friday that Thaksin, who fled Thailand in August rather than serve a two-year prison sentence for a conflict of interest conviction, was ready to make publicly broadcast phone calls to supporters around the clock to urge them to fight a coup. "If a coup is staged, Thaksin will fight against it along side with Thais. He can make phone calls to us 24 hours a day," Natthawut said. Thaksin was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006, but later returned to Thailand earlier this year after elections were held...
...wonder how a man who uttered almost no word of substance during a two-year campaign for President became the world's obsession. Maybe it's precisely this absence of any clear stance (that's flexibility in Obamaspeak) and an abundance of phrases like "hope," "brotherhood" and "change" that "inspires" people to project all their wishes onto Barack Obama. It looks more and more like a cult of personality: T shirts, magazine covers, TV shows, posters accompanied by propagandistic slogans declaring Obama prophet, messiah, revolutionary. We've seen it all before. Change? Sounds more like business as usual. Gerhard Moser...