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...supporters and so provoked tough new economic sanctions by the U.S. In the past, either event might have sparked a popular uprising on the scale witnessed in 1988, when the Burmese military shot and jailed thousands of demonstrators. The reaction this time?nothing, not a peep of protest?reflects how ruthlessly the Burmese junta has terrorized its own people. Washington's sanctions have boosted morale among Burma's embattled democrats, but they promise little apart from further poverty and desperation in a country ravaged by military greed and incompetence. The military is now a state within a state, with...
...average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy to plot, because Burma has only two Internet-service providers: one state run, the other owned by the son of military-intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt. The universities, traditionally crucibles of antigovernment protest, are open again?but only for master's students; the rest must study by correspondence or at campuses far from the city. Job prospects for graduates remain bleak, which is why Rangoon's taxi drivers are the world's most overqualified. "Everyone is misplaced in this country," shrugs a young...
Twenty-one Harvard students participated in a rally of over 200 people Friday in New York to protest a column that appeared in the April issue of Details magazine...
...Sorry if you didn’t get the joke.’ And, despite letters and almost 30,000 signatures on the petition against Details, another ‘Gay or...’ feature was included in the newest issue of Details, which came out before our protest,” said Sarah L. Paiji ’06, current chair of Boston Asian Students Alliance (BASA...
Paiji and former BASA Chair Joy C. Lin ’05 played key roles in organizing the protest...