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...used to seeing funny haircuts if the pace of transformation is anything to go by. Broken Hill City Gallery will be opening expansive new premises to celebrate its centenary in October this year - an event that will further mark the town's arrival on the Asia-Pacific art map. "It'll be controversial," laughs Helmsley, "but it's time to get rid of the old guard." And time to check that hard hat at the door...
...with the curtains drawn, emerging hours later to discover that two military-intelligence agents were harassing the staff about my identity and movements. Their timing was unnerving. Orwell's "Hate Week" parades have a modern Burmese equivalent. Mass rallies had been staged at stadiums nationwide to support a "road map" to democracy launched by Khin Nyunt, one of Burma's ruling troika of generals, just weeks after U.S. sanctions were announced. The rallies were organized by the regime's political wing, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, which has millions of members but only because state employees must join...
...Khin Nyunt's road map envisages elections and a new constitution but mentions neither a credible timetable nor Suu Kyi, who led the NLD to a convincing victory in the 1990 election. My Burmese friends regard the whole scheme as a sop to the regime's supporters in Asia or just another stalling device?either way, more of a roadblock than a road map. (The U.S. State Department recently dismissed it as "hype.") The late dictator General Ne Win, who seized power in 1962, launched the disastrous "Burmese way to socialism," which bankrupted the country. Now his prot?g? Khin Nyunt...
...growing global awareness of Indian culture--thanks to offerings like Bend It Like Beckham, the writings of Jhumpa Lahiri and modish curry cuisine (not to mention Indian software and telephone expertise)--has raised the subcontinent's profile and put it firmly on the traveler's map. The number of foreign visitors to India last year rose 16.5%, to 2.75 million, and the World Travel & Tourism Council predicts India's tourism industry will grow by 7.9% over the next decade, to $28.4 billion, or 4.8% of GDP. India's normally lackadaisical tourist authority has helped refine the allure with an advertising...
...position obliges Sharon to proceed with the "road map" - but only once the Palestinians have chosen a new leadership willing to renounce violence. That could mean waiting a generation, or longer, while in the interim Sharon has won U.S. support for consolidating Israel's grip on settlements that every U.S. administration, including this one, had previously defined as an obstacle to peace. From the moment he assumed office, Sharon had made clear that he opposed the pursuit of a final peace agreement with the Palestinians, pressing instead for a long-term interim arrangement. And in Sharon's mind, that perspective...