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...neighbor, Nan Tiya, 46, is sprinkling water on the earth floor of his unfinished house to banish bad spirits. A married father of two, he was dragooned as a porter for Burmese military units fighting Karen rebels. He rolls down his battered jungle boots to show scars caused by the shackles porters must wear. "When we were exhausted, they gave us nothing. Instead, they hit us. If someone didn't move, an officer would take a stick and beat the man to death." Nan Tiya claims he and other captives were ordered to bury the corpses of 17 porters...
...Nan Tiya eventually escaped to the comparative safety of Loi Tai Leng. His wife is in prison, so his two children are cared for by grandparents. He hasn't seen them for six years, and unless they make the perilous trek to Loi Tai Leng, he never will. He cannot safely return to his own village. "The Burmese soldiers will recognize me. I'll be killed for sure." Now remarried, he has two more children, and his new wife is heavily pregnant with a third...
...Australians' punishment is no consolation to villager Nan Gul, who was living in Zambar that day in May, 2002. "In our culture," he tells Time, "if you kill somebody, you must give them land, or a son and daughter in marriage to ease the burden of death." He said the same thing, he claims, to the Australian officer who arrived the day after the incident to apologize. "But we have had nothing from the foreigners, only empty promises...
...Nan Langowitz, director of the Center for Women's Leadership at Babson College, says one of the reasons for the success and growth of women-owned businesses is the focus on client satisfaction. "It's not that they don't care about financial performance, because they do," she says. "But focusing on customer satisfaction is a big driver." Stephanie Allen, whose Dream Dinners company grew out of a monthly date with a friend to cook and freeze nutritious meals for their families, says she receives 400 requests a week for a franchise application. She's sold only 76 because...
...meeting was led by Professor of International Health Jennifer Leaning ’68 and Professor of Biostatistics Nan M. Laird...