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...Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they did during my first visit more than seven years ago, and emergency generators clog the pavements. With municipal water supplies equally erratic, joke the Burmese, it's lucky the government isn't responsible for providing...
...equipped with a sidearm during official visits, even to kindergartens. His rival is Than Shwe, the top general and archetypal hard-liner. To encourage unity, the Burmese military has always promoted loyalty before brains, and Than Shwe is the result. He is even the thinly disguised butt of a joke in a popular Burmese magazine in which three students are boasting about their uncles. The first says, "My uncle has no arms, but he has swum across the Irrawaddy River five times." The second says, "My uncle has no legs, but he has climbed the Golden Rock Pagoda 10 times...
...tech industry that's driving the economy. She refuses to respond to personal attacks over her foreign birth, or to make any of her own. She has learned a halting Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that she is inarticulate in three languages. And experience has failed to make her a more inspired political player. At a rally last month in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, she resorted to the same lame vow?"The things that Indira and Rajiv believed in, I stand for them...
Though first proposed as a joke, Johnson took the invitation seriously and agreed to run. She needs 150 valid signatures from registered Greens or unaffiliated voters in order to get on the ballot officially. Right now she has 95 signatures, but she and a team of supporters will spend this weekend canvassing for their goal of 300 pre-validated signatures...
...India too?” I found myself asking him in my best Bengali accent. A five-minute conversation ensued, in which I learned that he was in fact Bangladeshi, but originally from Calcutta, and that his family owned several grocery stores back home. We laughed together over a joke only South Asians would appreciate, and as I walked out of the store I thought to myself: Speaking Bengali. That was nice. I think I’ll hold on to that...