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Even the junta's notorious xenophobia is rooted less in a desire for isolation than in an ingrained fear of invasion. Burma has been occupied by many foreign powers over the centuries and riven by ethnic insurgencies since its independence from Britain in 1948. The Burmese military's historical role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting to Know Burma's Ruling General | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

This enthusiasm for publicly accessible art has been the driving force behind Art Street, Inc., an initiative which has channeled Guillemin’s life-long interests in morality and the democratization of art. Though he once believed he would become a Jesuit priest, Guillemin’s desire to...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Taking Artwork into the Streets | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

QM, on the other hand, firstly is impossible to visualize, and secondly doesn’t really alter our conceptions of such everyday things. What it talks about are things that have nothing to do with our everyday experience. Relativity explains why apples fall from trees onto physicists?...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keats & Quanta: The Cat Is Dead | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

For example, in the president’s June 2009 speech from Cairo to the Islamic world, he quoted the Koran several times and even started with the Islamic greeting, “salaam aleikum.” The clash of Western and Islamic countries marks a major fracture in...

Author: By Anita J Joseph, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DISSENT: Presidential Power | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

The notion of putting enormous pressure on the Israelis to do anything has proved problematic for U.S. Presidents over time, however - and Brzezinski's well-known desire to apply such pressure has made him unpopular among Israel's noisy neoconservative and Evangelical supporters. But there are others, including well-known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Could Earn His Nobel Prize | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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