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...junta's response comes in the evening, when Brigadier General Thura Myint Maung, Minister of Religious Affairs, is quoted on state television as promising action against the monks. Within hours, trucks with loudspeakers are cruising Rangoon's dimly lit streets, announcing a curfew and threatening to arrest anyone who marches with the monks...
...emphasizing that the point of the tutorial was not to cover a specific set of material, but rather to teach students the skills required of history and literature concentrators. “This is a methods course,” she said. She added that this semester Hist and Lit offered a range of new seminars to offset the lack of a fall tutorial. Similarly the history department has added research and reading seminars, which are designed to replace the sophomore spring and junior fall tutorials. This year, Social Studies and East Asian studies are the only concentrations to offer...
...based Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an advocacy group with 125 affiliates around the world, convened a conference of doctors, survivors and advocates from 31 countries to map a global plan of action. A quiet march by 5,000 participants across the city's famed Chain Bridge--lit pink for the event--was the solemn coda to the meeting. But months before the Komen event was held, we had mobilized our own global resources to cover this growing health problem. Time's Hong Kong-based correspondent Kathleen Kingsbury, who wrote our cover story, surveyed the state of breast cancer...
...required fewer than 200words and less than 60minutes onscreen over 23years. But she made the role unforgettable. Starting in 1962's Dr. No, she was the definitive un-Bond girl: the smart, cute assistant who spurned Bond's advances, knowing he would break her heart, yet lit up when he entered the room. Many "hoped [Bond] would end up with her," said Maxwell, "because all the other women were so two-dimensional. She was real." Maxwell...
...that for a time reached more parts of the globe than any other religious show and claimed 20million viewers. Among the hallmarks of his 5,400-seat, marble-and-glass Cathedral of Tomorrow, a onetime movie theater near Akron, Ohio: a 100-ft.-long (about 30 m) cross, lit up with thousands of red, white and blue bulbs. His goal? Sticking to "the simple Gospel," not Beltway affairs. "If Jesus were preaching today," said Humbard, "he would never get into politics...