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Then the violence began, with at least two monks reported killed. As an eyewitness at Rangoon's best-known landmark, the golden Shwedagon Pagoda, tells it, the authorities had locked the famous monument's gates to prevent the monks from gathering. Security forces guarded the entrances. A little after noon...
By 12:30 p.m., hundreds of monks, students, and other Rangoon residents approached the police, stood in the road and began to pray. Then the soldiers and police began pulling monks from the crowd, targeting the leaders, striking both monks and ordinary people with canes. Several smoke bombs exploded and...
But at the end of the one-day session, the delegates hadn't come much closer to achieving the next meaningful step in the battle against climate change: negotiating a more complete successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. Though political awareness of the need...
Harvard’s 2007 season is giving new meaning to the old cliché that history is bound to repeat itself.The team looks eerily similar to the 2005 squad, which narrowly missed an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. That year, Katie Shields ’05 paced...
I must take issue with Aidan E. Tait’s uninformed and misleading depiction of the Harvard Summer School’s program in Rio de Janeiro ("More to Life Than Harvard," op-ed, Sept. 18). When I participated in the program in 2006, our class activities included visits...