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...Dictator's Demise." Before the coup, the stress level of all educated and well-informed Thais was at an all-time high. It seemed inevitable that Thai blood would flow on Bangkok's streets. The army's intervention against Thaksin Shinawatra's autocratic rule came as a great relief to Thais, who had been living on edge for at least the past year. Marshall seems to believe in democracy for democracy's sake. Under Thaksin's five-year rule, we lived with massive corruption and oppression. I know we have to wait and see if the people in power keep...
...drought has tumbled back into the minds of city dwellers. All sorts of trip wires have been activated in a matter of days. Parched, cracked earth and blue sky stretch across the front pages of the nation's newspapers. Canberra is issuing a burst of agricultural terms-relief package, subsidies, exceptional circumstances and "our farmers." "It is part of the psyche of this country, it is part of the essence of Australia, to have a rural community," Howard said last week after announcing an extension of drought support to farmers. "We would lose something of our identification as Australians...
...economics. Howard, once known for being dogmatic about his own causes, does not warm to their arguments. Professor Peter Cullen, of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, says Australians have been slow to realize that some places are permanently in drought. "The continuous drip feeding of drought relief just helps people with little hope of recovery to hang on a bit longer," he wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald. "It seems designed to maximize their misery and the land degradation they cause as they scratch out a living on farms that are too small to be viable." Water management expert...
...time to civic engagement. Some colleges—Elon University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and California State University, Monterey Bay—will receive the first President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll awards for exemplary civic contributions. Others will receive awards for their hurricane relief efforts...
...familiar to Benkreira, since he experienced a lot of pushing and shoving in high school.Benkreira immediately turned to Butt and retorted, “Charley, kids at my school had guns.”But Benkreira’s influence on the team is not limited to mere comic relief.“He also works very hard and is very serious about what he does,” said Downing. “He’s a guy that everyone on the team looks up to in many ways.”Now in his last year...