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Sophomore Cliff Nguyen rounded out the Harvard score with a tight three-set victory at No. 3 over Burman, while Chu faced little problems...
Harvard was on target from the start in the doubles portion of the match. The No. 3 team of co-captain Dalibor Snyder and sophomore Mark Riddell struck first against Princeton’s Dan Friedman and Josh Burman. On match point, Snyder made an impressive falling-over-backwards overhead to seal an 8-5 victory...
...Afterward one of the girls sat on the grass combing her wet hair. I asked her what aspect of tribal culture her display was meant to illustrate. "We are Burman ladies washing and playing with water," she explained sweetly...
...Burman? "Oh no. I'm Shan. All of us are from Mongla...
...This display illustrated not just a junkie's noble path to rehabilitation, but also?and perhaps more importantly for the regime's propagandists?his glorious transformation from soap-dodging Westernized reprobate into a clean-cut Burman patriot. The Burmese military liked to characterize its war on drugs as part of a wider campaign against colonialism and all its nefarious agents. This was spelled out by Khin Nyunt in a speech at Mongla in 1999. He blamed Burma's drug scourge on the "pernicious legacy" of British colonialists, a legacy exacerbated by what he called "the unscrupulous actions of the politically...