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...they ignored the results of the last polls. But for the cease-fire groups to participate in the balloting, the junta requires them to give up their guns. For many ethnic organizations, the KIO included, that's not acceptable. Between sips of whiskey chased by Red Bull, a gun runner in the Kachin capital Myitkyina tells me that he's fielding more orders for Chinese-made arms from various ethnic insurgent groups. "We have to defend ourselves," he says. "Otherwise the government will keep taking from us until we have nothing left...
...score at 7.Things soon fell apart for the visitors, though, as a solid relief effort from freshman Will Keuper (0-1) melted into a six-run frame. Through 3.1 innings of work, the rookie allowed only six hits, but fellow rookie Marcus Way and Stack-Babich allowed five inherited runners to score, saddling Keuper with the loss.UAB 13, HARVARD 0The Saturday morning contest brought the weekend’s most lopsided results in a difficult start for freshman Connor Hulse (0-2). The Blazers collected 18 hits on the day—14 against the rookie—and silenced...
Wandering the streets of Tokyo's Roppongi district on a wet night, you know where film director Ridley Scott got the inspiration for his dystopian Los Angeles in Blade Runner. Multicolored neon; disembodied voices from video screens; a freeway over your head; the smells and sounds of bars and noodle shops; fake fur everywhere. Then, the next morning, you look out a window and see another Japan: a hedge in which each leaf seems to have been clipped by hand; a couple of rocks placed, in some Zen way, just...
...Japan, there's a clear recognition of the economic link between feeling safe and feeling confident. In a March 7 interview with TIME in Tokyo, Ichiro Ozawa, the leader of the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and the front runner to be Japan's next Prime Minister (if he can avoid the fallout from a scandal over political fundraising), said "giving a sense of security to the population" was key to economic recovery. Ozawa argues that only if families feel that their basic needs have been taken care of - needs like health care and provision for retirement - will they...
...season finale and reunion special were shown back-to-back on March 2, six weeks had elapsed between the finale - when bachelor Jason Mesnick chose Melissa Rycroft to be his bride -and the reunion special, during which he announced that he had changed his mind and professed feelings for runner-up Molly Malaney. With more than 17 million viewers watching, Rycroft arrived at the reunion special holding - not wearing - her ring, and Mesnick confirmed the suspicions that the engagement was off. (Read "What Happens When You Get Left at the Altar...