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...natural wealth is most bountiful in areas where ethnic minorities simmer under the rule of the ethnic Burmese generals. Officially, the Burmese junta recognizes that the country is a union of at least 135 distinct groups. Yet the top ranks of the military are practically devoid of any non-Burmese presence. Army persecution of Burma's diverse tribes has festered for decades, and the proliferation of junta-controlled mines and concessions in the minority regions only exacerbates the tensions. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic villagers have been forced to relocate or have been conscripted into chain gangs, according to human...
...meant to be a heat that didn’t count for anything. Nearing the end of a senior season that saw his pool-time cut drastically by a chronic injury, swimmer Dan Jones hit the water for a non-scoring run of his signature event, the 100 butterfly. The event drew little interest from the crowd.Jones’ finish was a different story. Fans and teammates exploded in jubilation when the Crimson swimmer’s time was displayed on the board, showing that he had recorded the fastest effort of the day—a mark that...
...suspect. If indeed the prohibited information concerns no security release, then Obama is irrefutably wrong in denying its exposure. Evidence of torture will be damaging to America’s reputation around the world, but it nevertheless deserves to be heard. Should such evidence later be revealed by a non-governmental source, it would even further discredit American ideals...
...Labyrinth nabs our pick for Lowell house’s best party suite.Dunster: ‘The G-Spot’Although Dunster house is infamous for walk-through bedrooms, this 10-person suite occupying the entire fifth floor of G-entryway is home to a set of spacious non-walk-through singles. “Both last year and this year, the suite has been home to nine guys and one girl,” says current resident Katharine T. Waterman, Jr. ’09. Since the common room looks over Cowperthwaite Street, non-registered parties are tough...
...spent much of three decades taking pictures of the first non-Italian Pope in centuries, Gianni Giansanti broke big into photojournalism by capturing one of the most indelible and traumatic images in modern Italian history. On May 9, 1978, Giansanti, then 21 and working for the Sygma photo agency, rushed to the scene in the center of historic Rome, on the Via Michelangelo Caetani, when the body of Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a Renault, looking as if he were asleep but the victim of a cruel murder. The five time premier of Italy had been kidnapped...