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Traditionally, were you to ask somebody what "the best job in the world" is, you might expect to hear 'astronaut', 'movie star' or 'bed tester' thrown back at you. But for 34-year-old Englishman Ben Southall - and 35,000 other hopefuls - it was the six-month gig being offered by Tourism Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom...
...polls will be marred by stuffed ballot boxes and coerced votes for the military. Electoral rules are skewed, too, reserving top posts for members of the army and denying public office to anyone with a prison record or who was married to a foreigner. (Many NLD members have been thrown into jail, and Suu Kyi was married to a British academic who died of cancer.) (Read "In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope...
...indirect opportunity cost of four years that could have been spent working. With tuition continuing to rise faster than the rate of inflation, and no sign of a slowdown in sight, Harvard students should ask the question: how much is their designer degree really worth after their hats are thrown in Tercentenary Theatre...
...Officers were dispatched to Quincy House Dining Hall to investigate a report of broken glass. Upon arrival, officers reported that windows were broken and bread crates had been thrown around the area. The officers located the individual who became combative with officers. Michael Crawford of Duxbury, MA, was charged with malicious destruction of property and placed under arrest...
...available methods effective? According to a retired operative, some at Langley "are convinced that [Obama] has thrown out the baby along with the waterboard." More generally, some veterans say that the rules of the war on terrorism in the Obama era are no longer clear. "It's very much in flux," says Paul Pillar, a former top agency official who now teaches at Georgetown University. "So much is unresolved - like the various habeas cases involving Gitmo detainees. There are lots of shoes yet to drop...