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...wait. They are in no condition to foment revolution. In one village that no government representative had yet visited, I met a teacher who could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe, which normally hung at the front of the classroom. I asked if the 75-year-old strongman was a good person. The teacher laughed: "No, very bad." So why had he saved the picture? The teacher struggled...
...Luckily, in one village, a tall man walked up to me and said hello. He was the local teacher and could speak a little English. He showed me the rubble of his destroyed schoolhouse. Only two things had been salvaged from the building: a small, waterlogged globe used for geography lessons and a framed photograph of junta leader Than Shwe that normally hung at the front of the classroom. Asked if Than Shwe was a good person, the teacher laughed. "No, very bad." Asked why he had salvaged the picture the teacher struggled for the right English word and said...
...Sources: Boston Globe; Bloomberg; A.P. (2); Guardian; Standard Numbers Sources: ABC News (2); New York Times (2); A.P.; San Francisco Chronicle...
Sources: Boston Globe; Bloomberg; AP (2); Guardian; New York Times
...will have a president and a party that will lead us to a brighter future," he declared Tuesday night, in his North Carolina victory speech. He has presented himself as a transformative figure who can float outside of American history, undefined by his race, his Harvard education, his globe-trotting childhood, or the culture wars of the 1960s. He sells himself as the man who could "change the world," and millions of people have flocked to the message...