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...model for modern Asia into an economic disaster zone. So paranoid are members of the junta about any outside influence that in recent years they have severely curtailed movements by foreign aid groups, forcing several organizations, including the International Committee for the Red Cross and the French arm of Doctors Without Borders, to abandon their field offices. While some NGOs reported that their foreign workers were being granted special visas by the military to help with reconstruction efforts, the previous NGO blackout means that little infrastructure exists to help get supplies to the needy quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Reels as Storm Toll Rises | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...Rome, Alemanno said all the right things about bringing the city together, but several of his supporters cheering him at the steps of city hall flashed the fascist Roman salute. He has made public safety his top issue in a city that statistics suggest is relatively safe, vowing to arm municipal police and close down makeshift encampments of Roma immigrants (more commonly referred to as gypsies). He has even indicated he wants fewer foreign movies at Rome's annual film festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italian Rightist Sparks Outrage | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...time. “Even jazz and hip-hop are reduced to such a tight-looking form of dance that everything looks like pom,” Malin S. von Euler-Hogan ’10 says, referring to the competitive dance style characterized by precise and tight arm movements. Performing for a Harvard audience rather than Universal Dance Association judges this weekend, the CDT members look forward to the opportunity to showcase their individual dance personalities instead of mere technical precision. Together, Calandrelli and Euler-Hogan are choreographing an ebullient jazz number to Gnarls Barkley?...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Dance Team Tackles TV | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...made the supple boughs wag. The tumultuous wind tore violently at her hair and thrust its cold cruel fingers through the laces of her bodice.Then came the rains, first in scattered drops that teased her skin with their heated lightness, then in a warm torrent that laved her arms and head and parted the shirt from her bosom and thrust its tongue into her bare-stript heart. She struggled, gasping, in the direction of the stables.When she came into the stable, she was thoroughly wet. She was unraveled.The mares and steeds were pawing restlessly at the ground in their stalls...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE STABLE BOY | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...hope he’s a hardnosed ballplayer,” Walsh joked after Saturday’s game.Walsh wisely kept O’Neill out of the lineup for yesterday’s doubleheader, but the freshman was allegedly “tugging on [Walsh’s] arm during the game to play.”“When you have that kind of fight from within, it’s amazing,” Walsh said. “It exemplifies all the freshmen.”O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAINAs captain Matt Vance goes...

Author: By Loren Amor and Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tensions Run High Against Brown | 4/21/2008 | See Source »

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