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...Briton who first fell in love with Burma a decade ago, bewitched by its rich culture, breathtaking landscapes and hospitable people. Despite their isolation and the ever-present fear of arrest, I found Burmese to be worldly and eager to talk; I quickly formed lasting friendships, and Burma became the subject of my second book, The Trouser People. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer, stalked by disease and malnutrition. Inflation lurched ever upwards. Schools and hospitals crumbled with neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The brightest Burmese sought...
...relied on the plentiful reserves on the Norwegian continental shelf for almost all their output; last year, that area off the country's north and west shores accounted for more than four-fifths of the two firms' production. That bounty has made this nation of just 4.6 million people rich. Government taxes on the country's oil business - Norway is the world's fifth largest exporter by volume - have helped bloat Norway's national pension fund to around $350 billion. But those good times couldn't last forever. With fields beginning to dry up, oil production has slid...
...opinions in the case featured page after page of rich and exhaustive legal reasoning, befitting the intellectually dazzling court. Justice Clarence Thomas reiterated his often expressed opposition to affirmative action of all kinds, this time in 36 pages. Justice Stevens delivered a relatively terse ad hominem attack on the majority and offered his nonbinding belief that "no Member of the Court that I joined in 1975 would have agreed with today's decision." (The other eight are dead, so this couldn't be confirmed.) Kennedy offered an airy critique of both sides of the argument...
...fell in love with this country a decade ago, bewitched by its rich culture, breathtaking landscapes and hospitable people. Despite their isolation and the ever present fear of arrest, I found the Burmese worldly and eager to talk, and I quickly formed lasting friendships. I returned perhaps a dozen times, witnessing changes that were usually for the worse. People grew poorer and were stalked by disease and malnutrition. Schools and hospitals crumbled from neglect. Insurgencies raged along the rugged borders. The only real constant has been the junta, which seized power in 1962 and has run a promising nation into...
Perhaps it takes a very rich person to ignore very small things. In a week in which most of us were concentrating on such snack-size fare as whether Fred Thompson stumbled in his first presidential debate or how many hours Joe Torre, the weary manager of the New York Yankees, has left on the job, Paul Allen was concerning himself with decidedly larger matters--life in the cosmos, to be exact...