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...anyone suspected of spying for the police or military. When it comes to teachers, however, the victims are nearly all Buddhists. As one of Ban Bukoh's two Buddhist teachers, Prapa Boonaeb, 57, who runs the kindergarten, feels marked for death. "You don't know when they'll pull the trigger," says Prapa, a short-haired woman with a brisk but cheerful manner. "We try to keep a constant lookout, but it's hard because our attention is usually on the children." A year ago, she recalls, a teacher in Narathiwat province was shot in his classroom, in front...
...creative team may be new, but the cast is old, and Yates manages to pull the most mature performances yet from his young stars. True, they are growing up, and (with the exception of Emma Watson, who is far too lovely to be playing the bushy-haired Hermione) looking more like author J. K. Rowling’s character descriptions with each passing installment. But no matter how experienced or gifted the cast, chemistry and sensitivity like this can’t happen without a strong director...
Trying to pull his once-frontrunning presidential campaign out of its nosedive, a somber John McCain returned Friday to the campaign trail and the state that had been the scene of the greatest triumph in his 2000 campaign for the Republican nomination...
Since taking office in January, Crist has enlisted the bellwether Sunshine State in the Schwarzenegger-led movement to pull the party back toward the center - and few issues highlight that determination more than global warming. At the summit's close, Crist - who plans to install solar panels at the Governor's mansion in Tallahassee next week - will sign an executive order making Florida the latest of a dozen states to adopt California's stringent standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It requires 2009 model cars sold in Florida to cut those emissions by 25% and utilities to cut them...
First of Many. In her travels as First Lady, Mrs. Johnson has aimed to "pull back the curtain" by publicizing little-known community programs for self-help and improvement around the U.S. Some think she did all that-and more...