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...Although nobody starves in Burma, poverty and malnutrition exist and are by some accounts increasing. Outside Mandalay, I visited the families of migrant workers who live in squalid lean-tos on the wide, refuse-strewn banks of the Irrawaddy River. They labor for subsistence wages, shoveling sand from dredging boats or hauling illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags...
...promoted loyalty before brains, and Than Shwe is the result. He is even the thinly disguised butt of a joke in a popular Burmese magazine in which three students are boasting about their uncles. The first says, "My uncle has no arms, but he has swum across the Irrawaddy River five times." The second says, "My uncle has no legs, but he has climbed the Golden Rock Pagoda 10 times." The third says: "So what? My uncle has no brain, and he runs the country." If that joke seems spiteful, consider this: diplomats report that Than Shwe firmly believes that...
...Radcliffe heavyweight crew dominated from start to finish, taking five out of six races against No. 18 Syracuse and Dartmouth and securing the O’Leary Cup on the Charles River...
...can’t go up the river with Kurtz,” he says he was told, alluding to the grim postcolonial boat-ride of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and the Vietnam nightmare of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse...
...could be doing more, much more. Want fans to go to Fenway? How about chartering shuttles to drive students the 10 minutes across the Charles River to the park? How about letting the average student know that the game exists...