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...planet. The WTO's 36,000 pages of regulations reach into far-flung crannies of human existence. Can Malaysian fishermen export their shrimp to the U.S. even if their nets lack escape hatches for endangered turtles? Yes. Can Massachusetts refuse to buy products from companies that do business in Myanmar? No. Do American corporations get an illegal export subsidy by setting up legal offshore tax shelters? Yes. Can the French block our hormone-fed beef? No. Rule breakers are punished--in France's case by a hike in the tariffs on Roquefort cheese, among other goodies...
DIED. MICHAEL ARIS, 53, husband of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the junta would bar her return, she chose not to leave her country...
EXPELLED. SIX AMERICAN ACTIVISTS held in custody for six days for distributing pro-democracy leaflets; from Myanmar (formerly Burma). Twelve other foreigners were also released by the military regime. The 18 were originally sentenced to five years hard labor following a one-day trial...
...course, that is putting a high-minded gloss on the behavior, as if the auditorium of one's mind were always resounding to symposiums on Wittgenstein or on human rights in Myanmar. Caught me talking to myself? Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage! Thomas Jefferson dines alone! Shakespeare's soliloquies elevated talking to oneself to the highest art; on the other hand, Hamlet may not have been traveling with a full seabag either...
...Burma! to pack in my suitcase. But as long as my travel there would buttress a cruel regime that does not enjoy popular support, I hope never to see a Let's Go guidebook to the country. As long as Burma remains unfree, let's not go Myanmar...