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...from southern Thailand. In response, Buddhists are arming themselves?and not just in the villages. Every Sunday a Thai businessman drives his armor-plated car to a navy firing range outside Narathiwat town, where he and other local Buddhists practice how to shoot. While a bank manager and a bookshop owner blast away with sleek Italian-made shotguns, the businessman?who doesn't want to be named?takes out a Walther PPK pistol and deftly peppers a target with bullets. "Want to try?" he asks through wisps of choking cordite. "We are being victimized and killed every day. The government...
...When I think about the media, I tend to be pessimistic,” Auletta told a crowd of 40 gathered at the popular Mass Ave. bookshop. “There is a clash between business interests and the culture of journalism...
...disappointed,” says the manager of A Scholar’s Bookshop. “We opened it with high hopes....But we didn’t sell nearly enough books. We were losing money from day one and just couldn’t carry it anymore...
...Scholar’s Bookshop is just one of many tenants of Harvard Square that have succumbed to financial pressures in the last four years...
...last. The grind of writing Timoleon Vieta, Rhodes says, has cost him too much, and though he's flattered by his newfound status, his bigger consolation is that the ordeal is over. If the remainder rack beckons for Timoleon Vieta, he might return to the Tunbridge Wells, England, bookshop he worked in until last July; should the book turn him into the Next Big Thing, he'd sink the proceeds in a little château in France and no doubt a better bed from which to contemplate his desk. "I haven't had a good idea for months...