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...members of this self-styled '88 generation who hit the streets in August to protest the government's fuel-price rises. The protests were quickly snuffed out, or so it seemed. Three weeks later, I arrived to witness what now seems like a dream: a first vision of the marching monks...
...should get closer." And so I find myself in a crowd near the Sule Pagoda, facing soldiers and riot police. Only a handful of monks have escaped the junta's dragnet to join this protest. When more trucks pull up at the intersection, and the troops inside noisily cock their rifles, the crowd tenses as one. Seconds later, there are explosions - more smoke bombs - and we are running for our lives...
...majority - a vast majority - have voted for me, and therefore that result is the result.' GENERAL PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, President of Pakistan, on winning 98% of the parliamentary votes in a re-election bid that many boycotted in protest over his continued dual role as President and army chief...
...struggle against authority was literal. On Aug. 21, 1968, the day Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, Rostropovich played with the U.S.S.R. State Symphony Orchestra in London. Watched by hovering KGB minders - "Sputniks," the musicians privately called them - he was greeted by shouts of protest. But his performance of the mournful, defiant concerto by the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák brought the hall to a comprehending silence. "As I played, I saw the dead in the Prague streets through my tears," he later said...
CORRECTION: The Oct. 9 news article "Students Protest Sudan Investment" gave an outdated name for the national advocacy group STAND. It is known as "A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition," not "Students Taking Action Now: Darfur...