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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...
...true test of the reissue market's strength and revenue-generating power will come in September. The Beatles' albums haven't been touched since their original transfer to CD in 1987. Early word is that the remastered records sound great, though because of disagreements with Apple, they probably won't be available on iTunes, and the extras - mostly making-of documentaries - are a little underwhelming. They'll probably sell anyway, but if the Beatles and EMI are feeling just, they'll remember that the money they take from reissues is equal to the love they make them with...
...Zaid, a Shi'ite in the Mahdi Army militia led by Moqtada al-Sadr, says he is simply waiting for word on whether to fight again...
...guess what? Now marking its silver anniversary (the company was founded by Montreal street performers in 1984), Cirque has done a show like the early ones. Kooza, from the Sanskrit word for "box," is light on elaborate production values, heavy on old-fashioned circus acts: jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, high-wire walkers... and clowns. Kooza's writer-director, David Shiner, has decades of intercontinental renown as a clown-mime; and his show throws a long spotlight on three of the breed. Nice change: they're all North Americans, and they talk - no Marcel Marceau winsomeness here. Surprise: they're fast, raucous...
...starting to seem prohibitive. "The thing that was literally keeping me awake at night was having a conversation with my son that, 'You know, Charlie, you're going to have to withdraw from Grinnell,'" Frantz says. In February, he called the school to ask for more help. No definite word yet, but aid officers told him his chances are good. "That was such a huge relief for me," he says Frantz. "I can't begin to explain...