Word: sagaing
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...Though the saga is likely to drag on, many observers are betting that the Prime Minister will ultimately buckle, compro- mising on the plan's recommendations until they are impotent. Real reform, they say, is about as likely as the successful completion of that Hail Mary pass. "The reformers are on their own 25-yard line and the anti-reformers control the rest of the field," says Peter Ennis, editor of the Oriental Economist. For Koizumi, failure may mean the end of his last, best hope of being remembered as a great reformer. "If the latest round goes down poorly...
...Tuyen says. Vietnam's highways now claim 1,000 lives a month, double the rate of just five years ago. It's part of the price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...
...deadly sniper saga continues in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and well into Virginia, leaving investigators stymied. Death returned to Maryland early Tuesday morning when a bus driver was shot and killed in Montgomery County; Wednesday afternoon, ballistic tests confirmed a link with previous shootings. Public anxiety, already on the rise, was further piqued by the words on a note found near Saturday's shooting in Richmond, and released by police Tuesday evening: "Your children," the ominous message read, "are not safe anywhere at any time...
...when PBS aired the Forsyte Saga--a 26-part Victorian-Edwardian mini-series based on John Galsworthy's novels--it was revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...Salem saga is just one of the dramatic stories playing out in the press and on websites. Also in the news is Chota Shakeel, Bombay's current boss of bosses, whom the local police claim they have on 71 tapes of bugged calls. Among Shakeel's alleged phone buddies are actors, directors and producers. The tapes still must have their authenticity established, yet they add credence to the popular theory that in India, which makes more films per year than any other nation, the Mob controls most of the movie business...