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...constitution but mentions neither a credible timetable nor Suu Kyi, who led the NLD to a convincing victory in the 1990 election. My Burmese friends regard the whole scheme as a sop to the regime's supporters in Asia or just another stalling device?either way, more of a roadblock than a road map. (The U.S. State Department recently dismissed it as "hype.") The late dictator General Ne Win, who seized power in 1962, launched the disastrous "Burmese way to socialism," which bankrupted the country. Now his prot?g? Khin Nyunt is effectively peddling the "Burmese way to democracy." No wonder...
...think so. "All of Hamas' welfare and sermons and education and health care has one aim," says Kupperwasser, the Israeli intelligence analyst, "to make people ready to participate in terrorist acts. As long as they convince Palestinians to look at suicide bombers as heroes and martyrs, instead of the roadblock to peace, Hamas is going to be successful." And at the moment, Hamas' power is unchallenged. Both Americans and Israelis believe that Arafat's downtrodden Palestinian Authority has the means to dismantle Hamas but not the will, whereas Palestinians believe it has neither. "No one can finish Hamas," says Rantisi...
...TiVo and systems like it, being rolled out by cable and satellite-TV providers, allow viewers to download TV shows and movies and watch them when they want, skipping ads if they choose. U.S. networks haven't figured out viable revenue models for that. The BBC has no such roadblock, since its shows are financed by the citizenry and broadcast in Britain commercial-free. That means it can get on with digitizing its content and figure out how to profit later...
...interest is certainly there, but you have a roadblock because it takes so long to acquire expertise,” Africa notes. “There’s a gap between burgeoning interest and available faculty...
Early yesterday morning, the top-seeded Harvard men’s tennis team encountered a roadblock on its run towards the ECAC Championship—its van wouldn’t start...