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...Singapore government and other investors bought a controlling stake in Thailand's Shin Corp. from the family of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The $1.87 billion deal has sparked big protests...
...What is Shin Corp.? It's a conglomerate that owns Thailand's biggest mobile-phone operator and Internet provider. Thaksin ran it until he became Prime Minister in 2001, when he transferred his stake to family members and household employees to comply with a ban on cabinet ministers owning shares in firms deemed to be in the "national interest," like telecoms...
...that was at stake was some sort of bragging rights--who has the most Nobels, who gets to look down its national nose at the rest of the world--none of that would have happened because it wouldn't really matter. After all, Americans may have invented the integrated circuit and the Internet and the lightbulb, but people all over the world get to use them. Same goes for the statin drugs that lower cholesterol and the iPod. And we are obviously free to use inventions made elsewhere, such as Velcro and the ballpoint...
Many of the court’s most controversial rulings have come on 5-4 votes. It’s possible that these votes were so close because the issues at stake were so contentious. But it’s also possible that 5-4 votes lack the imprimatur of authority that wider margins carry. As the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, R-Pa, said after the court issued a 5-4 ruling in the 2000 case Bush v. Gore: “it naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions...
...game, more than ten percentage points higher than its season average of 67.5 percent. NOT IN OUR HOUSE The Crimson put in a strong defensive effort in the first half, holding the Lions to 29 percent from the floor and forcing seven turnovers. The defense helped Harvard stake out a 39-22 lead in a game in which the Crimson never trailed after scoring on its first possession of the game. “I liked our defense,” Delaney-Smith said. “I’ve been pretty happy with our defense of late...