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For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Refuse Allegiance to Coal

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That's One Big Bang For Mankind

Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize
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To Your Health—and Mine
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Refuse Allegiance to Coal
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Obama’s Third Way in Afghanistan
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That’s One Big Bang For Mankind

For 23 Years, Fully Aware but Mute and Paralyzed

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Over 30 Civilians Killed in Philippines Massacre

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Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

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The Guantanamo Lawyers: Shipwrecked
By Baher Azmy

Freedom’s Fight: Part II
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Claire Wasserman on Europe’s Islamic Immigrants
By Claire Wasserman

Oprah Sets Her Show’s Expiration Date

Financial Meltdown 101

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Vetting Sarah Palin

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Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

By Susan Sontag
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Land of Coups

news.bbc.co.uk

The demonstrations that have vexed Bangkok for the last few days took an ugly turn Monday as the Thai army fired at a crowd of protesters and ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called for revolution. Current PM Abhisit Vejjajiva, the object of the protesters’ ire, has promised to restore order, though he himself rose to power on the back of public unrest.

BBC:

“The soldiers fired hundreds of rounds from their M-16 automatic rifles as they advanced, though it was unclear whether they were firing at, or over, the protesters,” the agency says.

A Bangkok hospital doctor told the BBC News website that 74 people had been brought into hospital, most of them suffering abrasions but some with gunshot wounds.

An army spokesman, Col Sunsern Kaewkumnerd, said about 400 soldiers had moved against some 300 protesters.

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