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...thousands like him await basic supplies. Yet the day before, Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein, who is overseeing Burma's relief effort, "presented 20 sets of TV, 10 DVD players, and 10 satellite receivers" to entertain storm victims elsewhere in the delta, reported the junta newspaper The New Light of Myanmar. "The government is not coming," summarizes Kyaw Mya. "Foreign countries are not coming...
Moran thinks cases like this chip away at the perception that the Internet remains a lawless frontier where criminals can act with impunity. "People think of the Internet as this dark place," Moran says. "We're shining a light into that shadow." If nothing else, it offered a delicious bit of symmetry: the conduit through which Neil and Corliss allegedly committed their crimes may also be the tool that brings them to justice...
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister, Gen. Thein Sein - the man nominally overseeing Burma's relief effort - toured the delta by helicopter on Thursday, reported the junta newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar. He urged cyclone victims to "show resilience...
...Matrix, the brothers hid allusions to the Bible, Greek mythology and mathematics. If there's any complex philosophy in Speed Racer, it went over my head (probably at the speed of light). Here, the texture is the text, and it's deliriously dense, with more than 2,000 effects shots, often layered on top of each other. The effect, if you get into it, isn't just a store window of technology. It is, as Mom says of Speed's mastery behind the wheel, "inspiring, and beautiful, and everything art should be." That's what the Wachowskis are aiming...
Katie Couric's problem is not her gender; it's that her recent professional experience was light banter and soft stories [May 5]. In its efforts to "tart up" the news, CBS put her in the position of playing to her weaknesses rather than her strengths. The change in her style and appearance made her unfamiliar to fans who might have followed her from the Today show. Stanley Kalemaris, MELVILLE...