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...inequity is straining the network of fragile cease-fires in tribal areas. "We have sent many letters registering our complaints to the government, but we haven't heard back," says Colonel Gun Maw. Not hearing back from the Burmese junta is something to which the spokesman for the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) is accustomed. An ethnically based movement in northern Burma's Kachin state, the KIO waged a long insurgency against the Burmese regime before signing a peace treaty in 1994. Most Kachin are Christian, and they believe their faith makes them particularly vulnerable to persecution by the exclusively Buddhist...
...said Menand. “The story has a great voice. She created a great character—this kid with a very moving voice.” Hale, who has been published in the Advocate before, said that she was completely surprised when she heard that she had won the prize because she never expects people to like her writing since “it’s all about animals and kids.” She said she wrote from the perspective of a child partly because it was the way she understood her character and partly because...
...both the American and British governments as highly suspect. If indeed the prohibited information concerns no security release, then Obama is irrefutably wrong in denying its exposure. Evidence of torture will be damaging to America’s reputation around the world, but it nevertheless deserves to be heard. Should such evidence later be revealed by a non-governmental source, it would even further discredit American ideals...
...only in my second year here, but I’ve never heard of anything like this. Neither has the Cambridge Fire Department, I might add: one member of the force said she had no idea what "River Run" was and had no memory of the phenomenon in her entire time with the force...
...director of the Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea. Shortly after the discriminatory graffiti was first discovered, seven different Asian-American student organizations sent e-mails last Saturday night to gauge interest in holding a rally. In less than a day, they had heard back from nearly 30 different student groups. “It was sort of the incident that brought a lot of other incidents to the forefront,” CSA co-president Daniel C. Suo ’09 said in reference to the recent patterns of racism. “People kept pouring...