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Another key aide of Suu Kyi, Win Htein, was also among those released this week. A former military officer, he was imprisoned in 1996 for allegedly meeting with activists who had made a video documenting harsh conditions in the Burmese countryside. He was arrested because the regime "wanted to cut off Suu Kyi?s ears and eyes," said Soe Aung. But as last year's monk-led uprising showed, voices of dissent are becoming more difficult to silence. Although Win Tin has vowed to continue speaking out and working to end military rule, he is surely aware that the military...
...instead dealt it a sweep. The Crimson lost all three of its games while hosting the ECAC Championships, finishing in last place among the eight team field. For a squad that began the season in promising fashion with a 2-1 record in three road games, Harvard suffered a harsh reality check at the hands of its conference foes. The Crimson fell to Johns Hopkins and Iona on Saturday before closing the tournament with a loss to Brown yesterday.“We really have to earn our pride back,” co-captain Jay Connolly said...
...instability in Africa's largest economy, with bitter divisions within the ANC likely to grow more rancorous. While Zuma's supporters have long claimed that their leader is the victim of a political conspiracy orchestrated by Mbeki, on Saturday it was Mbeki's supporters who decried the party's harsh treatment of the departing leader. "This has been a brutal internal coup, almost," Mbeki biographer William Gumede told a South African radio station...
...that anything has changed significantly. To the extent that sovereign wealth funds are talking to desperate-for-capital bankers in the U.S. - and, as Gao's trip shows, they are talking - the terms of the discussions, one senior Hong Kong-based banker said today, are likely to be very harsh for any potential recipient of capital: "You're basically looking at structuring a deal at this point in which there is no downside - none. Even if a company goes under, like Lehman, you're first in line to get paid a return on your assets. Take it or leave...
...control inflation, no two goals are more closely wedded to the economic well-being of the average worker and consumer. Therefore, it is essential that the government support both the nation’s largest mortgage provider and one of the largest insurers, lest they fall completely, levying a harsh and direct impact of American homeowners and healthcare consumers. To put in perspective the centrality of these companies to their respective sectors and to the financial market as a whole, consider that Mae and Freddie Mac finance roughly 80 percent of new mortgages for American homebuyers, while AIG provides more...