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...Shan have an uneasy relationship with their ethnic cousins, the Thais. (Siam, the old name for Thailand, is a corruption of "Shan.") Unlike other ethnic groups fleeing persecution in Burma, the Shan who cross into Thailand are not granted refugee status, and easily fall prey to disease and human traffickers. To appease Burma's generals?who would like nothing more than a rebel-free Shan state?Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered his army to expel the S.S.A. from the group's headquarters, which straddles the border. But that hasn't happened yet and, despite public pronouncements to the contrary...
Still, Ensler, believes that even daring college women can fall prey to an eagerness to please, overweening self-consciousness or insecurity. She cautions women against obsessing about their bodies. “When you ask whether you look fat, and I know you all do, what you’re really asking is, ‘Do I have the right to exist?’ If you just didn’t ask that question for one day, you could radically change your life...
Facing Crimson Tide No. 1 Robin Stephenson, Lingman fell prey to a break of serve in the first set from which she could never recover, stumbling into a 6-4 result and one-set hole. But the seasoned veteran proved unfazed by the early deficit and roared back to capture the final sets 6-4 and 6-3 for the victory...
...decades, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Boston failed to uphold its duty to area Catholics. While the bishops preached the Church’s elaborate doctrines of sexual morality, they disobeyed the most basic ones. They allowed pedophilic priests to continually prey on Boston’s boys—shuffling offending priests from parish to parish, as if that would cure them. Thankfully, the coming forward of victims and additional outside pressure, has finally brought this cycle of abuse to light and has caused the Church to put its practice back in line with its preaching...
...Bridget Jones’ Diary. I refer, of course, to the infamous Holiday Sweater incident, when the hapless thirty-something Bridget locks eyes with the dashing Darcy across a crowded Christmas party. She is aghast to discover, however, that the tall, dark and ever-so handsome Darcy has fallen prey to the curse of the festive season-inspired knitwear, sporting a reindeer design sweater that is enough to have Bridget swear off his charms immediately...