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...place. Suu Kyi was detained with about a hundred of her party members, including elderly deputy Tin Oo; both Suu Kyi and Tin Oo are still under house arrest. The authorities shut NLD offices nationwide, although last week the party's Rangoon headquarters was allowed to reopen. The party rank and file remains traumatized. Later, I would meet a stalwart too fearful to carry his NLD membership card but who instead defiantly scratched his membership number from memory on the corner of a newspaper...
Another counselor at the Bureau wrote in an e-mail that the “rank and file” of the Bureau’s staff considered the issues noted in the letter of great importance...
...There is no reason to believe the Palestinians plan to dump their elected president any time soon, and the most significant challenge to Arafat's leadership in Palestinian ranks comes from the Islamist radicals of Hamas and the rank-and-file of his own nationalist Fatah movement, which increasingly shares the Islamists' belief in the path of confrontation. Hence Sharon's recent remarks to an Israeli interviewer on his Gaza plan: "The Palestinians understand that this plan is, to a great extent, the end of their dreams, a very heavy blow to them," which, he said would "force them...
Even considering that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is committed to expanding its rank to 700 professors, an increase of 10 percent over the next decade, administrators seem skeptical that any plan could attract a critical mass of faculty advisers...
...where are you supposed to get it? From this perspective, reporters have it easy. There is always something new to report. Life itself supplies a regular stream of events--roughly 3.2 billion an hour, according to scientists. With the advent of computers, it has become a simple matter to rank all events in order of their suitability as news, using the famous Gannett scale, developed by the well-known newspaper chain and involving such factors as the impact of an event on other events, the number of proper names that are difficult to spell (a negative factor) and the involvement...