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...their drills, disturbed the easy image of a militia conscripting hungry boys in return for a fistful of rice. Armed with a university degree in international relations, Felix speaks fluent English and expresses himself eloquently on political philosophy. But as an ethnic Kachin - an ethnicity more than 1 million strong, famed for its fortitude while serving on the Allied side in World War II - Felix knows his chances of succeeding in junta-controlled Burma are as slender as the jungle vines KIA soldiers sometimes eat to survive. So he has joined other disillusioned university graduates among the KIA ranks. "Some...
...failure to provide opportunities for all its Muslim population is another way in which Germany's unwillingness to think big has hurt it. Germany is fundamentally a strong and cohesive society. Sour Ossis and disaffected immigrant communities do not threaten a new Weimar or a revival of the nihilism that scarred the 1970s. Muslims in Germany, for the most part, have rejected the siren calls of jihadism. But there is a strain of disappointment and resentment in Germany 20 years after the hated Wall came down which makes one uneasy about the future. In Oranienstrasse a convoy of cars drives...
Bethpage is synonymous with golf. The host of the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open—the former witnessing a strong late-tournament surge by Phil Mickelson, only to finish three strokes back of Tiger Woods—Bethpage seems a fitting place to kick off the 2009 campaign for Harvard men’s golf. Channeling the prowess of the golf legends who had walked the course before them, the Crimson improved on last year’s ninth-place finish by placing fifth—tied with host St. John?...
...beautiful skies of St. Helena, Calif. provided the Harvard men’s tennis team with the ambience to challenge tough opponents and see how they could fare in the upcoming season. The Crimson attended the Land Rover Napa Valley Tennis Classic, a round robin tournament that featured three strong teams from around the nation: UC Berkeley, University of Michigan (No. 33 in the nation last year), and University of Mississippi (No. 4 at the end of last season). These high-ranking opponents gave Harvard the tests needed to diagnose their problems in order to build on last season...
...controlled.“I knew [Nunic] was supposed to be a very good player,” Tachibana said. “The team motivated me and the crowd cheered me on, and that helped a lot.”Harvard’s doubles teams had similarly strong performances. The freshman-sophomore combination of Alex Lehman and Samantha Gridley defeated UTSA’s Caroline Dedering and Vivian Carillo, 8-5, in the opening round. In the second round, the tandem made an 8-3 statement win against the first-seeded team of Nunic and Francine Whu from...