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...With 18 coups since the World War II and 18 different constitutions, Thailand has yet to find a democratic framework or formula where everyone is reasonably satisfied. It remains a nation deeply divided along class, regional and religious lines. The man who most successfully exploited these divisions was Thaksin, the patron of the PPP now living in self-imposed exile in England. Using his leverage as one of Thailand's richest men, he successfully wooed lawmakers from several other political parties to join his Thai Rak Thai party in the late 1990s. Thai Rak Thai (TRT) dominated Thailand's political...
...member of his own party, who might try to blunt the sharper edges of her predecessor's hard-line policies rather than toe the official stance, the SVP has threatened to leave the government and form an opposition party. The move would undermine Switzerland's 50-year-old "magic formula" under which four main political parties share seven Cabinet seats, balancing different cultural and linguistic regions that make up Switzerland...
Once each remaining group has 15% or more of the participants, a complicated formula is used to determine how many delegates each candidate receives...
...little uncomfortable as a white person. But I felt a little too comfortable.Have you ever seen “Hoosiers?” What about “The Mighty Ducks?” Even “Happy Gilmore?” All of these movies follow a formula. Fate sends the little guy several improbable talents and, though they may face hardships along the way, they ultimately prevail. Without revealing too much, let’s just say the movie hardly wanders from this format. The predictability of the plot isn’t the film?...
...will need to corner TV time in New Hampshire and then run the nominee through a quick gauntlet of primaries before anyone else has a chance at the prize. The whole thing makes for more of a ritual than a race, but there's no doubting that the formula works. In the past seven presidential elections, G.O.P. nominees have lost only twice...