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...Until very recently, it was just an insignificant village in a sparsely populated area of northeastern Burma. It owed its remarkable transformation?and its notoriety?to a Shan Chinese druglord called Lin Mingxian. Lin had been a field commander in the Communist Party of Burma, or CPB, a formidable insurgent group that once occupied a large swath of northeastern Shan state. When the CPB collapsed in 1989, Lin led a breakaway faction of over 3,500 soldiers, taking control of an opium-rich wilderness bordering China, Laos and Thailand...
...What happened next was extraordinary. Rather than take on Lin and his well-equipped private army, Burma's generals cut a generous deal with him. In return for keeping the peace, Lin was granted immunity from prosecution and full autonomy in the Mongla region. The regime also gave him lucrative business concessions in gold, timber and gems, as well as?crucially?tacit permission to trade in opium...
...inductees, all members of the Class of 2001, are Lisa B. Keyfetz of Adams House; Ashley L. Filip, Charles C. H. Lin and Nestor D.C. Tomycz of Cabot House; Lilian I. Childress, Aarup A. Kubal, Anup A. Kubal, Peter K. Park, Sarah E.M. Wood and Ellen Yeh of Currier House; Ellen J. Guldi of Dudley House; Anne L. Berry, Brian T. Shaffer and Benjamin R. Sloop of Dunster House; Eileen K. Bent, Seth D. Familian, Eric Fleisig-Greene, Emir Kamenica, Roman Martinez and Jamie R. Vance of Eliot House; Claire E. Farley, Kevin C. Gold, Robert F. Luo and Sarah...
Harvard's depth was apparent from the outset as the 200 medley relay of senior Michael Im, freshman Jonathan Lin, junior Kyle Egan and senior Jamey Waters won the event in 1:31.72. The team of freshmen Kemi George and Rassan Grant, sophomore Leif Drake and co-captain Matt Fritsch finished second with a time...
...class of '04 stepped up again in the breaststroke as Grant and Lin powered to a one-two finish in the 100, touching at 58.14 and 58.44, respectively...