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...student in Rangoon, he became involved with a troupe practicing a-nyient, a traditional Burmese form of comedy that often pokes fun at the country's military leaders. When those leaders reasserted their authority in a 1988 putsch, Htein Lin, along with many other student activists, fled into the jungle. While living in a rebel camp, he happened to meet an older artist, who offered him drawing lessons using recycled newspaper or sticks in the sand and described the paintings of Van Gogh and Picasso. "I had some images of them in my mind," Htein Lin says, laughing. "Of course...
...ever present. Is Israel a Jewish state or a state for Jews? Is religion more important than national identity? Examined closely, Israel more resembles a mosaic than a real country: the black-hatted ultra-Orthodox are at odds with the beach boys of Tel Aviv; the Jews who fled Europe feel superior to those who flooded in from North Africa and the Middle East; the latecomers--Russians (many of them not practicing Jews) and Ethiopians--are still struggling to fit in; and the Israeli Arabs, who constitute 20% of the population, complain that they are treated as second-class citizens...
...loses both his North Carolina stronghold and Indiana, where the polls are split but Clinton has momentum, that scenario will still be possible. Reagan Democrats fearing the connection to Rev. Wright's fiery rhetoric and the supposed elitism of Obama's San Francisco comments will appear to have irrevocably fled to the camp of anyone but Obama. If on the other hand Obama manages to win both, he'll have relearned the art of political levitation, and Clinton likely will have to drop out of the race. But if, as most observers expect, Clinton and Obama split the decision...
...could have made a dash for it," jokes the burly native of northeast England, who has lived in Turkish Cyprus since 1997. Had he done so, he'd probably now be in an English prison awaiting trial on the drugs charges he ducked 10 years ago, when he fled to this sunny but troubled bolt-hole in the eastern Mediterranean...
...five Arab countries against Israel, the same countries that targeted their own Jewish communities. Moreover, war didn’t “ensue.” it was initiated by countries determined to “wipe Israel off the map.” While some Palestinian Arabs fled their homes out of fear of the Israeli army, many were encouraged to leave by their own leaders, assured they would soon return after an Arab victory. When this victory failed to materialize, these Palestinians were kept in refugee camps ¬and denied absorption by the same Arab governments...