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...knew Andrew would not be able to tell the full story until he had safely left Burma but that it would be worth the wait. For few foreigners know Burma as intimately as he, and nobody has written about it with more power. His book The Trouser People (Penguin; 2003) is the definitive account of modern Burmese society. Andrew arrived in Rangoon just in time to catch the uprising at its most optimistic: the monks had been joined by thousands of ordinary Burmese, infused with hope that they would get the junta to bend and perhaps break. Andrew joined...
...euphoria would not last, and Andrew was on hand to chronicle the junta's brutal crackdown. He was joined in Rangoon by our own James Nachtwey, the world's pre-eminent news photographer. If Andrew's story describes the ecstasy of the uprising and the agony of its failure, Nachtwey's haunting images capture Rangoon's somber mood as ordinary Burmese try to go back to their lives after the crackdown...
...overall and 6-1 under head coach Tim Murphy, it expects this upcoming meeting to be the most difficult so far.“We know that Lafayette is potentially the best team in the Patriot League,” said junior cornerback and preseason All-American Andrew Berry.Harvard is coming off a convincing 32-15 victory at Cornell last week, and is finally returning home after playing three of its first four games on the road. Its only home game thus far was a 24-17 victory against Brown in the Crimson’s first-ever night game.Despite...
...open online curriculum centered on poker that will draw the brightest minds together,” according to the group’s online statement. The GPSTS currently has chapters organized at Stanford, UCLA, and Brown, in addition to Harvard and Yale. Nesson and third-year law student Andrew M. Woods, the interim president of the HLS chapter, said that the group hoped to change the reputation of poker from one of illegal gambling to that of a valuable educational tool. “Poker teaches cognitive ability in a way we just don’t have in education...
Since fleeing to Paris last February, Nur has repeated the same message to President Bush's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios; French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner; and the former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson. A steady stream of leading diplomats has met with Nur to plead with him to attend international peace talks with Sudan's government. "Everybody has been to see him, anybody who thinks they can have any influence whatsoever," says a European aid worker, who asked not to be named. "People are really, really, really trying to persuade him." That's because the mass killing...