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...NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has never accepted these changes; neither has the U.S. government. TIME continues to use Burma and Rangoon...
...MARRIAGE NOTE...
...Harvard Yard,” the same could not be said for her prose. Bok: 311 words Last year, then-Interim President Derek C. Bok wrote to the community announcing the retirement of Sidney Verba, Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library. A brief 311-word note, Bok’s letter is almost 1/6 the length of Faust’s and perhaps 6 times more readable. Summers: 465 words In a time before the infamous women-in-science remarks, former President Lawrence H. Summers solicited thoughts on a new provost to replace then-Provost Harvey...
...former F-14 aviator, Carroll likens the V-22 to another Marine favorite, the AV-8 Harrier jump jet. "The Harrier," he notes, "is actually a good analogy for the V-22." Like the AV-8, the V-22 is a radical aircraft crammed with compromises that may change combat forever. And like the AV-8, it may also kill a lot of Marines while doing little of note on the battlefield. Since 1971, more than a third of Harriers have crashed, killing 45 Marines in 143 accidents. But there's a critical difference between the two warplanes. Each Harrier...
With foreign journalists locked out of the country by Burma's military government, this dispatch was written by TIME staff based on eyewitness reports. [NOTE: The junta that runs the country imposed a systematic name change several years ago, decreeing that Burma was to be called Myanmar and the capital Rangoon was to be Yangon. The opposition has never accepted these changes; neither has the U.S. government. TIME continues to use Burma and Rangoon...