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...With campaigning underway for a Dec. 23 general election, and Isaan a key battleground, dinosaurs again roam the region - political ones this time. Lumbering onto a campaign stage in this sleepy town is veteran politician Samak Sundaravej, 72, the right-wing firebrand who leads the People Power Party (PPP). The PPP is an ill-disguised facsimile of Thai Rak Thai (TRT), the party outlawed after the Thai military overthrew its leader, the multi-billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, in September 2006. The TRT's Bangkok headquarters is now occupied by the PPP, and the two parties' logos are almost identical...
...moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings outstretched and beak ever so sharp, the dark bird is fierce and threatening. Yet the blotches of water soften the animal’s shape and remind us that this is, alas, a work of fiction. Nobel laureate Doris Lessing’s name is megalomaniacally scrawled in regal yellow...
...Good News,” Gomes criticizes the church and its adherents for straying from Jesus’ message in order to preserve the status quo and gratify immediate self-interest. Following a highly charged national election in which “Jesus” signified the right wing of the Republican Party, such a critique represents a necessary step towards decoupling Christian religiosity and extreme political conservatism. The text is more than just a critique, however; it is also a guidebook to rediscovering Jesus’ teachings and, through them, God. It is in this latter capacity that...
...better view before giving Philip Seymour Hoffman a little lecture about turning 40 and getting rid of the extraneous--like, say, smoking. The three Oscar winners have gathered to chat with TIME's BELINDA LUSCOMBE about their new film Charlie Wilson's War, written by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, directed by Mike Nichols and produced by Playtone, Hanks' company. The true story of a large-living Texas Congressman who secretly helped the mujahedin expel the Soviets from Afghanistan, the movie is history played for laughs. The interview played the same...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's left-wing, oil-fueled revolution usually carries itself like a swaggering, cocksure juggernaut. So it was a sign that things perhaps weren't looking good for the fiery, anti-U.S. leader Sunday night when he didn't appear on the balcony of Miraflores, the Caracas presidential palace, pumping his fists and crowing confidently about victory. Venezuela's polls had closed in a national referendum on a raft of constitutional reforms that would have profoundly tightened his hold on political power in Venezuela - including an amendment to eliminate presidential term limits (which currently last...