With the controversial legacy of Mr. Thaksin both a boon and a potential barrier, Ms. Yingluck must now deliver on her party's litany of ambitious populist promises: a sharp increase in the minimum wage, the construction of high-speed rail lines, providing free tablet computers to primary school students and revamping the health care system, among many others.
There will be a lot of other people helping him achieve this personality shift: stylists, personal advisors, PRs, agents, party promoters, and a litany of dubious hangers-on.
So, too, does the litany of parties surrounding it.
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah is where the Tea Party slew one of its first giants, toppling a three-term Republican senator in a 2010 electoral coup that scrambled party politics and heralded a litany of fierce contests between establishment Republicans and conservative upstarts.
Unlike the big, branded sports destinations, Perform and the other lesser-know but fast-growing CineSport (which ranked fourth in November) are able to license content from leagues and other content providers, distributing video content particularly to a litany of third party sites.
This year, I experienced an inordinate number of those halcyon moments at Detroit's Movement Festival, and, more importantly, its wild litany of after-parties.
In 1999, when Congress was rushing to regulate health maintenance organizations, members of both parties spent an afternoon telling a litany of stories of suffering patients, culminating with the appearance on the House floor of a 7-year-old boy who had lost his hands and legs.
But New York has a hallowed history of persnickety cooks: Kenny Shopsin became something of a cult figure for the litany of rules — including no parties bigger than four, and no more than one order at each table of any particular dish — enforced for years at Shopsin's diner in the West Village, now a small outpost at the Essex Street Market on the Lower East Side.
From Whitewater to Benghazi, Clinton continues to be a lightening rod for a litany of charges that galvanize GOP party members and donors against her.
He positioned his party's climate change plan in a grand litany of New Zealand opposition to historical wrongs: Parihaka, the disenfranchisement of women, apartheid.
At cocktail parties, one hears familiar litanies about higher taxes on the wealthy to fund prekindergarten education, and potentially falling real estate prices.
