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...Thaksin seems in a blithe mood these days. Though overthrown in Thailand's first coup in 15 years, he is intent on showing the world that he's enjoying exile. He has reacquainted himself with the pleasures of golf-at least until conditions in Beijing, where he spends much of his time, got so icy his bodyguard couldn't put the tee into the ground. Acknowledging that his suit was hanging a little loose over his frame, Thaksin explains: "I've lost weight because I have time to do yoga, not because I feel grievances. I'm very relaxed." Indeed...
...objections raised at the meeting. “We see tonight as a beginning and we’re happy to come back here as many times as you want,” said Christopher M. Gordon, Harvard’s top Allston official. Despite the prevailing mood of the meeting, some residents expressed an optimistic attitude. “I don’t like Harvard but I love what they do for the neighborhood,” said Bob Alexander, a Harvard employee and former member of the Allston Civic Association’s Harvard task force...
...make a comedy on almost any subject - as Preston Sturges (and even Mel Brooks) have proved. But there's no spark in this one. And no sparkle in Garner's playing. She's an attractive young woman, but her energy is low and her mood is endlessly wistful. Olyphant seems more of a male model than an actor, and the writer-director, Susannah Grant, does not know how to stir her actors up comedically or romantically...
...that erupted last January in an outpost called Amona, when an army effort to dislodge a few families left 200 soldiers and settlers injured. Another outbreak of violence could bring down Olmert's centrist government, which would probably hand power to hawkish parties who are in no mood to make peace with the Palestinians. As Gershom Gorenberg, an expert on the history of Israel's settlements, says, "Olmert's biggest fear is Jews fighting Jews, and that gives the settlers a stranglehold over the government...
...London last week the twelve leaders agreed to avoid criticizing Washington. In France, an assistant to Premier Jacques Chirac said, "We don't intend to add the least little grain of salt" to the Reagan Administration's wounds. West Germany's Sddeutsche Zeitung succinctly summed up the mood of allied capitals by comparing it to "the sound of embarrassed coughing...