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...different. The Irrawaddy delta is Burma's rice bowl. Not only was nearly all of this season's crop destroyed by Nargis, but most farmers won't be able to plant the next batch of seedlings because of salt-water inundation. Future shortages could spell dissent: at least five protest movements in Burma's recent history happened in the months when grain prices were at their highest. In a startling indication of dissatisfaction, an official counting referendum votes in Rakhine state told a Rangoon journalist that in 15 townships, the "no" vote ranged from 56% to 98%. (In Burma...
...changes were inevitable and probably for the best. Not many kids beg to be told a ripping yarn with a feline Messiah. The theological touches in the Lewis and Pullman books are things for adults to ponder--and, when the movie versions come out, to praise or protest. Remember when that pagan fable about Harry Potter appeared as a film? An anguished cry rose from certain Christian groups, but that didn't stop the movies from grossing billions, nor did the films noticeably corrupt the little ones...
Official Russia basked in glory last July when President Vladimir Putin successfully spearheaded Russia's effort to win the 2014 Games. The country has not hosted the Olympics since the 1980 Moscow Games, which the U.S. boycotted to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. So the win for Sochi, proclaimed a reporter on Russia's state television station, was "perhaps the greatest success in Russia's modern history...
Andrei Krotun, leader of the Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta community's protest, says residents have been desperate to draw the attention of the International Olympic Committee to their plight. But when the IOC inspectors finally did come on April 23, he says, police beat up protestors. Police deny any cruelty, and the Voice of Russia radio station quoted French ski star Jean-Claude Killy, the head of the IOC's delegation, as saying that he was impressed with the speed of preparations...
...carefully around the question, aware of its implication that corrupt local officials had siphoned off funds from school construction. He denied that an unusually large number of schools had collapsed. Corruption has proved an inflammatory issue in the past-it was one of the driving forces behind the Tiananmen protest in 1989-and coupling it with an issue like the deaths of hundreds of children could be explosive...