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...should get closer," says the young Burmese woman in the crowd behind me. "If foreigners are there they won't shoot." She is terribly wrong...
...hundred yards away feels close enough. Last night, soldiers like these had raided monasteries, beating and arresting hundreds of monks. Soldiers like these had also snuffed out Burma's last great pro-democracy uprising in 1988 by killing and injuring thousands. I know they will not hesitate to shoot...
...kick that grazed the upper left post, missing the net by a narrow margin. Merritt also had an attempt that hit the crossbar and rolled behind the net a few minutes before the game ended. “I am trying to turn and go at the goal and shoot more,” Merritt said. “Good things happen when you shoot.” Harvard’s sophomore goalkeeper, Lauren Mann, recorded her eighth shutout of the season overall, but lack of a strong Vermont offense and another impressive performance by Crimson defenders junior Nicole...
...enough to finish fifth in a strong field,” Shuman said. “We had the potential to finish higher if we played our absolute best.” As a testament to the difficulty of The Course at Yale, only three individuals were able to shoot under par in the entire tournament. The course, playing at 6,749 yards to a par of 70, has been ranked among the world’s most difficult. “Everyone thinks they played better than they scored,” Shuman said, “because...
...quickly suppressed. Khin Nyunt, the former head of military intelligence who was once hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with long-imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey...