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...colonial-style villa in the Burmese commercial capital Rangoon looks like many other homes on Inya Lake, where some of the country's most influential citizens live. But for much of the past two decades, this dilapidated white-shuttered house on University Avenue has been a place of detention for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose democratic activism has earned the ire of the country's notorious ruling junta. On May 3, though, the closely guarded house had an unexpected visitor...
...According to Burma's state press, an American man confessed to swimming across the lake in the cover of night and staying in Suu Kyi's compound. Identified as 53-year-old John Yeattaw, he was arrested on the long swim back to the other shore on the morning of May 6. The man was found with, among other things, an American passport, U.S. dollars, a pair of pliers, a camera and a five-liter water bottle that would have came in handy as a float, according to the government-run media. (See pictures of Cyclone Nargis' devastation in Burma...
...Swimming in Inya Lake near Suu Kyi's home is banned, and the opposition leader is rarely allowed any visitors, apart from her doctor. Roadblocks often discourage passersby and people who do manage to get near the front gate are usually photographed by security personnel. No previous successful attempt of someone sneaking into her house from the lake has ever been reported...
...thoughts on electoral participation aren't completely clear, given the isolation imposed upon her by the junta. Evading the patrols in Inya Lake may be the only way to find out, but security has already been tightened around her home. After the American's arrest, a troop of police barged into the opposition activist's home and more road blocks were placed near her compound. The Lady shouldn't expect any more surprise guests...
...every HAA 1 course, an introduction to general art history that features a different professor each week, with a lecture on the Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson. The Spiral Jetty is a 1,500 foot-long earthwork made of rocks, mud and salt that juts into the Great Salt Lake. The land art is left totally unprotected against nature—it dips below water level, changes color and erodes. Roberts says that she chooses this piece every year to “break down people’s assumptions about art history right away. It?...