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...checks and balances among the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. They surely do not envision the installation of a President who decides judicial matters without the presentation of evidence in a trial or a Prime Minister like Thaksin Shinawatra, who, as you noted, described the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi as "reasonable enough." We in the West have to be clear about what kind of government a country such as Thailand may install. Will it be one that balances the powers of its different branches? Or will it be one that misuses the label of democracy and allows...
...first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born novelist (The Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen's 1998 art-house hit Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. Yan emigrated to the U.S. after the 1989 Beijing crackdown and now lives in San Francisco, where she is a leading figure in China's post-Tiananmen literary diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting) and Ma Jian (Red Dust), as well as newcomers such as Da Chen (whose Brothers came out in September). Like many of the American writers who decamped to Europe...
Sources: Sudan Tribune; Times Argus; AP; San Francisco Chronicle; Philadelphia Inquirer...
Crimson President William C. Marra ’07 wrote in an e-mail that an internal investigation concluded that Breeden had copied both her Oct. 25 cartoon and her Oct. 18 piece that strongly resembles a cartoon by Stephen P. Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Both cartoons depict North Korean citizens grovelling before a nuclear missile...
...Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read his column at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/navarrette/index.html