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...other hand, Terry pointed to one of the downsides of the freedom provided to graduate students...
...repeated repeated saying in sports is to go “Win one for the Gipper.” This weekend, the “Gipper” will be Alex Wawrzyniak, a three-year-old listed as a shortstop and right-handed pitcher on the Harvard baseball team’s roster...
...Kyrgyz themselves are of Turkic stock, one of the many confederations of Central Asian nomadic tribes that coalesced into an ethnic group over generations of war and migration. Their founding national myth is the Epic of Manas, a 500,000-line poem that is 12 times the size of The Odyssey and claimed by some to be one of the few examples of oral literature preserved in its original form for nearly a thousand years. It tells of a heroic warrior, Manas, as he united the Kyrgyz and smote enemy invaders upon the steppe. It's a tale that...
...While the coup against Thaksin came as a surprise because there hadn't been one in 14 years, military ousters have been commonplace throughout modern Thai history. The military has staged 18 successful coups since 1932, when a group of army officers and intellectuals overthrew the last absolute monarch. Since then, the military has ruled overtly or has influenced politics from behind the scenes. In May 1992, Bangkok's middle class rose up against a general who usurped power following an election in which he was not a candidate. Soldiers responded with deadly force. King Bhumibol intervened...
...Prime Minister, who was known for his inability to tolerate dissent. In 2006, top generals believed Thaksin was planning to remove them for refusing his orders to crack down on protesters, so they moved against him while he was attending a U.N. meeting in New York. In one of the many ironies in Thai politics, the man they installed as Prime Minister, General Surayud Chulanont, had, as army chief, opposed soldiers' meddling in politics...