Word: majesté
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...also not above pulling populist levers to achieve his political ends. In explaining the planned expulsion of the Far Eastern Economic Review reporters, he suggested publicly they had offended the country's revered monarchy. (They hadn't, and weren't charged with violating Thailand's l?se majest? laws.) One of the ways he came to power was promising to give every Thai village about $23,000. He did?but now most of that money has been spent. In a by-election last month, Thai Rak Thai won only four of the 14 House of Representatives seats contested. Thais knew their...
...vast subversion (liberating or disastrous, depending on your point of view) that started in the '60s, just after Moynihan came to Washington, and altered every American institution, from the presidency to the military, the universities, the churches, the family. A regenerative turbulence, lasting through the '70s, began with l?se-majest? as a way of life but laid the foundations of a society new and different - and in many ways better...