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...crowds that were (slowly) filtering into Lavietes Pavilion and the Harvard and Princeton squads exchanging high-fives in their layup lines. Noting my wide eyes, my fellow reporter said, “Remember, you can’t cheer.”I had my pen and pad, my tape recorder, and my eye for basketball at the ready. But at that moment, I realized that sportswriting would require more from me than I ever anticipated—and more than I could ever really deliver. The Crimson holds itself to high standards of journalism. One of its more sacred...
...Entering the electoral fray will be an ironic development for PAD, as its platform dubbed "New Politics" once called for denying the nation's rural majority the right to vote on the basis that they are uneducated and sell their votes to corrupt politicians. The movement's positions range from reasonable - such as reforming corruption in politics and pushing for an unbiased state-run media - to questionable at best, with one PAD leader recently praising North Korea's land reform program, saying that although North Koreans were starving, they had pride of small land ownership...
...Nonetheless, a PAD party could pose a major challenge to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democrat Party, whose ability to hold together his fractious governing coalition appears increasingly shaky amid civil unrest, political conflicts and an economy that contracted by 7.1% in the first quarter of this year. As Abhisit's coalition is still intact, no election date has been set. "We have been asking for political reform, but for five months this government has not responded to us," Panthep said. "We will ally ourselves with any party that wants transparency, the rule...
...Both PAD and Thaksin's supporters, known as the 'red shirts,' have been at the center of Thailand's civil unrest for years, flouting the law with apparently little consequences. The PAD seized Bangkok's international airport for eight days late last year, while the red shirts stormed a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian nations in Pattaya in April forcing its cancellation, rioted in Bangkok and twice violently attacked Abhisit...
...Some analysts caution that forming an official party could ultimately undermine the PAD's goal of preventing the return of Thaksin or his allies. The Democrats and the PAD appeal to similar constituencies, and the fear is they may split the anti-Thaksin vote, paving the way for his proxy party to return to power. "We may be competing for some of the same voters as the Democrats,'' Panthep conceded...