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...EHUD BARAK, Israeli Prime Minister, saying in a television commercial that the only path to peace was through negotiations with the Palestinians...
...were swept up on a wave of Chinese tourists and carried along a winding path that led past wooden huts occupied by various tribespeople. There were two old Shan women flogging herbal medicines, as well as a large contingent of Padaung or Kayan women?known as "giraffe women" or "long-necks" for the brass coils stacked high around their throats. We crowded into a round hut to watch them perform a traditional dance, which involved the flicking of colorful hankies...
...This display illustrated not just a junkie's noble path to rehabilitation, but also?and perhaps more importantly for the regime's propagandists?his glorious transformation from soap-dodging Westernized reprobate into a clean-cut Burman patriot. The Burmese military liked to characterize its war on drugs as part of a wider campaign against colonialism and all its nefarious agents. This was spelled out by Khin Nyunt in a speech at Mongla in 1999. He blamed Burma's drug scourge on the "pernicious legacy" of British colonialists, a legacy exacerbated by what he called "the unscrupulous actions of the politically...
...know how Greenspan feels about reducing surpluses via additional spending - he doesn't like it. And that leaves tax cuts, which by halfway through the speech were an integral part of a budget strategy "that is consistent with a preemptive smoothing of the glide path to zero federal debt" and aimed at "making the on-budget surplus economically inconsequential when the debt is effectively paid...
...stop on the migratory path of ideas...