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...phones and the Internet arrived and, despite being costly and state-controlled, were embraced by thousands. Student activists jailed after the 1988 protests were released and regrouping as an alternative to the National League for Democracy (NLD), the beleaguered party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has spent 12 of the past 18 years under house arrest...
...boozing and smooching docs might set a bad example for medical practitioners, but what's wrong with flying saucers or a musical monk? Apichatpong, 37, spent two years filming the story, based loosely on the lives of his physician parents, and says he doesn't know why Thailand's censors wanted to cut the four scenes. He also refused to play along. So Syndromes, which opened last month in London as part of an Apichatpong season at BFI Southbank, won't be showing anytime soon in Bangkok. "I'm sick of this system," the director sighs...
...Harvard, Carney’s varsity career was limited to just one memorable game. In it, he stopped 100 percent of the shots he faced, creating a rather formidable save percentage. Carney also proved reliable outside the ice hockey rink. Before entering public service in 2003, Carney spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs, working in New York, London, and Tokyo and eventually becoming managing director of investment banking in Toronto. Grace said that even at the time of his college interview, Carney was already expressing an interest in public service. Carney’s promotion to become the head...
...Faced with this now-mandated vacation, I embraced it. I spent my spring term writing (drinking), reading (smoking cigarettes), and exercising (moving, slightly). I visited my brother in Vegas and saw LeBron James. I passive-aggressively quarreled with my roommates from my new apartment over e-mail. I started a blog. I wrote in it, once...
...Board). Instead, the resident dean speaks on your behalf. And instead of being able to present evidence, all one can really do is write a heartfelt letter and hope it invokes sympathy and faith in your ability to function as a rational human being. As you can imagine, I spent much of the spring attempting to improve my writing...