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...ordinary Burmese had overcome their fear of the regime and joined the demonstrations, their shoes slapping through the monsoon downpours alongside the monks' bare feet. While marching monks recited prayers in the commercial capital Rangoon, civilians raised their fists and chanted their own mantra: "Democracy, democracy." The participation of normal citizens has turned what had been a series of sporadic rallies into the largest sustained display of dissent in Burma in nearly two decades. "The people's only weapons are their hands," said an elderly teacher watching the procession of protestors with teary eyes. "The government wants to wipe them...
...have been reduced to second-degree aggravated battery, still unheard of for a fist-fight where the victim walked out of the hospital hours later. The 16-year-old boys, all without prior criminal records, were tried as adults in front of an all-white judge and jury. Under normal circumstances, the charges and sentence seem unnecessarily harsh. Set against the background of events in Jena, they raise the specter of racism...
...more than one real estate agent say, ‘We didn’t think that undergraduates were allowed to live off-campus,’” says Greg R. Scruggs ’08. He considers himself extremely normal for wanting to live outside of a House. “Living in a dorm—it’s kind of juvenile after twenty,” he says...
...said that up to 95 percent of normal grant applicants are rejected at first submission as a result...
...logistical change that comes with a night game. The team adjusted its last pre-game practice yesterday to 7:30 p.m. to mirror game conditions, but it’ll take more than that for the players to feel completely comfortable with playing a game seven hours later than normal.“Saturday’s torture for football coaches, night games are just torture,” Murphy said. “Why? Because, as coaches—and I think players—we’d play the thing at 9 o’clock...