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...focus images of fluffy bunnies and blooming bouquets—these delightfully wholesome tableaux seem conspicuously absent from the local environment. The stripped-bare foliage continues to bear more than a passing resemblance to the set of the Blair Witch Project (preponderance of red brick aside); deluded optimists who insist on wearing flip-flops outside end up with toes a distinctive shade of magenta by sunset; and carb-loaded comfort foods still retain that elusive yet maddening X-factor which renders piping hot pad thai an easy choice over macrobiotic vegetables...
...chair the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and host its the summit. Most of these projects, including the inauspiciously named Twin Towers, sit idle for lack of investment. Ordinary Burmese feel baffled and betrayed by the encouragement their oppressors get from Asia's leaders. Privately, Southeast Asian diplomats insist they are heaping more backroom pressure on Burma than their abysmal public showing suggests. One dearly hopes so. ASEAN now faces the prospect of showcasing its member states' considerable achievements in a country that is a global byword for backwardness and brutality...
...Sadr's fierce young lieutenants apply a puritanical Islamic creed when and where they can. They insist women go veiled, they bar Western music and dress, they censor films and close--or burn down--liquor stores. In Najaf they have set up an office for the "Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice," just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. Al-Sadr has authorized his followers to set up illegal courts and prisons in Baghdad and eight southern cities, where al-Sadr enemies have allegedly been tortured...
...both men agree that the dynamics of operating a family business are changing. Sensitive to charges of nepotism, the brothers insist that it is not a foregone conclusion that their companies will remain family dynasties. Akira's two sons and one daughter work for him, but he says it's unclear whether any of them will occupy his corner office when he retires. "It'd be good for them to become independent and start their own companies," he says. "That way, they could learn management know-how. Nothing has been decided." And while two sons-in-law and one daughter...
Others might say that the review began five years earlier, when administrators began tweaking various parts of the nearly thirty-year old Core Curriculum. Still others might insist that the process did not truly begin until last May, when a steering committee and four specialized working groups were rounded up to begin brainstorming...