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...Delta town famous for its pottery. But the vast waterworld of rivers and rice fields that stretched beyond it was a foreign land to her until Cyclone Nargis and its horrific aftermath. On Thursday, Chin Chin and her friends bought rice and water, loaded it on a truck, and drove deep into the delta. She was shocked by what she saw: roads lined with hundreds of cold and hungry villagers, disregarded by their own government, who had walked for an hour from their broken villages to beg from passing motorists...
...relief teams immediately and said it would accept foreign aid.) But even if China is willing to speak out, it's hard to know just how much influence it would have on Burma's top brass. The extent of the regime's disconnect with reality struck me as I drove the broad, empty avenues of Naypyidaw. This is a country where roughly one-third of children were malnourished even before Nargis. Yet the generals saw no problem with spending tens of millions of dollars constructing a massive new capital. But even there, the disregard for citizens is matched only...
...really just buy a pair of Diesel jeans at full price? What happened to that young Chicagoan who scoured the Marshall Fields on State Street for marked down Guess? What happened to me at Harvard?There’s a picture of me that my mother took when we drove from Chicago to Cambridge at the start of my freshman year. Why on Earth we chose to make that 18-hour drive, I’ll never know. Well, that’s not entirely true: I was starting a new adventure.In the picture, I’m standing...
...dissidents and crushing small protests against the upcoming constitutional referendum. But shortly after last weekend's storm, the troops appeared to have gone AWOL. One foreign NGO worker who was in Rangoon recalls seeing just one military truck on the streets in the hours after the cyclone. The vehicle drove up to a downed tree blocking the road, paused and then left. The following day, the foreigner saw a group of about 20 soldiers tackle another fallen tree armed with nothing but a machete and a single handsaw...
...Magno, who told me later I'd need five years before I could compete with the author of Glengarry Glen Ross. "He trains two or three times a week. If he misses a session, he likes to triple the time," Magno added. "He likes gambling, knives and guns. He drove a taxi." Never had someone used so many words to tell me I'm a wuss...