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...Than Shwe has vowed to create a so-called "discipline-flourishing democracy" that will not only entrench military rule but protect his legacy - and his skin. In 2002, suspecting a plot against him, Than Shwe put Ne Win, the man who had first elevated him to power, and his daughter under house arrest and jailed his grandsons. "Ne Win died in ignominy," says Christina Fink, author of Living Silence: Burma Under Military Rule, a landmark book about life under the junta. "Than Shwe must be painfully aware that the same could happen to him." The junta chief has another weakness...
...make the decision." Discussion as a way of making policy can be seen in the development of the National Family Safety Program, started in 1999 by a small group of professional women concerned about domestic abuse. As a measure of how seriously he takes the subject, Abdullah assigned his daughter, Princess Adelah, to spearhead the initiative, and in 2006, the group helped write the first laws making it illegal for husbands to abuse their wives and children. "For us as Arabs and Saudis and Muslims, you can't believe in these values and look at these stories and not want...
...fairy tales can be the darkest kind there are, and in the case of Olive (and Fludd and most of the other creative types portrayed here), a life in the arts has psychic costs. Often it's the next generation that pays. Eventually the children, in particular Olive's daughter Dorothy, eclipse their parents in both the plot and our sympathies. This makes sense in a novel about a transitional era, but it also makes for a disorienting reading experience. For several hundred pages, it's hard to know which characters most deserve our attention...
Carlos Tory, a 33-year-old U.S.-educated banker, is one of the freshest faces in Lima. He worked as an investment banker in New York City until early June but jumped at the chance to live in Lima with his wife and newborn daughter. He got off the plane and went to work for Interbank...
...beautiful. Dysfunctional yet functional. Warm yet cold. Put simply, real,” according to director Kriti Lodha ’12, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “Proof” tells the story of Catherine (Caroline R. Giuliani ’11), the daughter of Robert (Robert Rogers, an HRDC alumnus who currently works in the Harvard Math department), a renowned mathematician, who struggles with caring for her genius but mentally ailing father while trying to take care of herself as well. With standout performances by Xanthia A. Tucker ’13, (as Catherine?...