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...truth about Burma, renamed as Myanmar by its generals, is that the sanctions debate is immaterial. While American and European foreign policy thinkers ponder how to financially strangle an army government that has ruled since 1962, Burma's regional neighbors are embarking on a new Great Game, scrambling to outdo each other for access to this resource-rich land. "Sanctions don't work if most countries ignore them," says Naw La, an exiled environmentalist with the Kachin Development Networking Group in Thailand. "The military is selling our natural heritage without any concern for our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...business, ran interference, made the deals and, for much of their 45 years, was Valentino's lover. They met in a cafe on the Via Veneto in 1960, the year Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita made that street famous, and established Rome as the Mecca and Gomorrah of European society. (Nino Rota's music from La Dolce Vita and other Fellini films ornaments the sound track.) Valentino had just come from Paris to open a salon; Giammetti was still in college. Their serendipitous encounter cued a grand, contentious, lifelong partnership. A handsome man whose strength is revealed in whispers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ode to a Fashion Legend, Valentino: The Last Emperor | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...side and the Charles River on the other, the suite’s long hallways host everything from dance parties to beer bottle bowling. Switzerland native Alexandre N. Maurice ’09 says that he turned the giant common room this year into a “European discotheque, equipped with an excellent sound system whose speakers have been known to blow out on occasion.”Pforzheimer: The Bell TowerRight beneath Pfoho’s belltower sits this four-bedroom suite. It technically has four residents, but it also connects to two other four-person duplexes which...

Author: By Catherine A. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where the Party At: Harvard's Sweetest Party Suites | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...been playing a pivotal mediating role between Italy's Left and Right at a time of great tension between Moscow and Washington; he ended up a martyr of the Cold War. Giansanti's color photograph was seen all over the world and splashed onto the cover of TIME's European edition. (See pictures of Giansanti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Gianni Giansanti | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Church is expanding most rapidly in the world, typically with a more devout approach to the faith. Over the past three decades, Catholics have tripled in Africa, totaling some 18% of the continent's population; within the next 25 years, African Catholics are expected to outnumber European Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Besieged Pope Benedict Gets Some Love in Africa | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

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