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...Although nobody starves in Burma, poverty and malnutrition exist and are by some accounts increasing. Outside Mandalay, I visited the families of migrant workers who live in squalid lean-tos on the wide, refuse-strewn banks of the Irrawaddy River. They labor for subsistence wages, shoveling sand from dredging boats or hauling illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags...
...climate in Australia is favorable to the Bush administration. The Liberal Party presides in government—led by the feisty and determined John Howard, who fought long and hard throughout his last two terms to be at the constant beck and call of the United States. The Australian Labor Party (ALP), unable to engage the Liberals’ policies, has proved impotent during federal elections and—until recently—offered very little political competition...
Make no mistake: Australians have never been shy to question the behavior of other world leaders. In 1993, Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating famously had the country denied membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by calling Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad a “recalcitrant” for refusing to attend an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting. Despite their country’s military insignificance, Australian leaders have rarely been afraid to chart their own course—except, that is, when blindly supporting U.S foreign policy...
Progressive Student Labor Movement member Emma S. Mackinnon ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, said Harvard should not forget about its workers as it takes on large projects...
...University Committee on Calendar Reform recommended last month that FAS, along with Harvard’s nine other schools, adopt a uniform academic calendar that starts each year soon after Labor Day, moves Commencement to late May and ends the fall semester before winter vacation...