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...hard to feel good about a person described as an absconder, an insurgent and an opium-smuggling terrorist--unless the group doing the name calling is the military junta that runs Burma (Myanmar) and the person being defamed is Dr. Cynthia Maung. Since 1988, Maung has been building and running a thriving medical clinic on the treacherous Thailand-Burma border, providing badly needed health care for 70,000 people a year and facing down one of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world...
...junta came to power, killing up to 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators. Later it turned its wrath on the Karen. Maung and 14 of her colleagues fled to Thailand. "We didn't think we'd be gone long," she says. "Maybe six months...
...administrator. She began raising funds from international refugee organizations, Karen communities in Thailand, religious groups and other Thai charities. She recruited volunteers, taught them front-line medical care and expanded the clinic's services to include HIV testing, maternal care, vaccinations, infectious-disease treatment and more. With the junta tightening its hold, she settled in for a long stay...
...yesterday. Caroline B. Kennedy ’80, the daughter of the 35th president, presented the second annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to 39-year-old Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ top law enforcement officer, and 39-year-old Kica Matos, executive director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s Stephen Smith Center in Boston. The New Frontier Awards, co-sponsored by the Kennedy Library Foundation and Harvard’s Institute of Politics, are given to two individuals under 40, one holding elected office and one working full-time...
Thankfully, the Gen Ed Committee’s so-called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses” promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...