I was the office clerk, filing plans, running errands and doing a litle bit of drafting.
General Sonthi's recent comment that he could not guarantee Mr Thaksin's safety if he returned did sound like a veiled threat.A constitution-writing body set up by the junta has, under public pressure, cut the most undemocratic bits of a draft charter that it will soon put to a referendum.
When bits of the drafts were leaked, they weren't what you'd expect a trade deal to be about, like exchange and openness of trade.
Unlike Lord Snooty, I suspect he may have had a bit of help drafting it, though both vaguely hope that a sensible and workable arrangement can be found that protects both a robust inquiring press and victims of its abuses.
Much like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull – the last wordily-titled film to revive a 1980s screen icon and then saddle him with LaBeouf as a sidekick – it smacks of a screenplay cobbled together from bits of a dozen earlier drafts.
"It's a bit like Christmas morning," Kiper said of draft day, which was apt, since, Santa Claus aside, few people have jobs that center so exclusively on a single day.
But if Mr. Gaines's project is still a bit of a rough draft -- his comments consist mostly of praise for the show, with fairly generic analysis -- it contains moments that hint at the form's potential, small revelations of bias or quirky interpretation.
He seems to have preserved every draft, complete or not, bits of juvenilia, jottings, letters sent and received.
In fact, he hit.400 or higher in three seasons, counting the truncated bits of 1952 and '53, when he was drafted into the Korean War.
The armed forces were drafted in to protect other bits of vulnerable infrastructure.
