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...about 1 p.m. on Sept. 27, and I am wedged among thousands of pro-democracy protesters near the golden-domed Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon. Facing us are hundreds of soldiers and riot police, who look on edge as they finger their assault rifles. The protesters, mostly ordinary Burmese clad in sarongs and sandals, appear undaunted, even jubilant. Defiantly, they chant a Buddhist mantra whose melody will haunt me for days...
...Despite the clash at Shwedagon, the monks continued on, their fervor broadcast over loudspeakers: "Let us overthrow the government." By early afternoon, the demonstrators had marched the two miles to the Sule Pagoda, another holy site. Again, the path to the pagoda itself was blocked by hundreds of security forces, many with bayonets fixed. The protestors sat and prayed in front of them. More soldiers armed with rifles arrived, though, and most of the crowd stood up and walked away. Twenty minutes later, the troops opened fire - a 10-second burst above the heads of those marchers who had dared...
...want to eat the best pickled-tea-leaf salad in Rangoon, possibly in all of Burma, go to Mrs. Greedy's tea shop, a collection of plastic furniture occupying the pavement opposite Sule Pagoda. And if you want to talk without fear of being overheard, do what my Burmese friend Ko Myo did when I met him there one evening: lift up one of Mrs. Greedy's tables and set it down several feet from the nearest customers. Even then you talk in an undertone. It's a reminder that despite Burma's tourist-friendly veneer?how many dictatorships have...
...leading attraction is Rangoon (Yangon). Giant stupas sparkling in the sun have captivated newcomers for centuries. The mesmeric gilded domes of Sule and Shwedagon pagodas tower above the capital. Dawn and dusk walks, past hundreds of kneeling devotees as plumes of incense waft over their prayers, are unforgettable...
...than a lot of other people," says a college woman who was there. The festivities ended with upperclassmen wheeling the pledges out of the bar in shopping carts, because they were too far gone to walk. "They were like firemen carrying people out of a burning building," says Christopher Sule, an L.S.U. student who works at a sandwich shop next door. When police were called to the frat house hours later, they found almost two dozen men passed out on the living-room floor. By early morning, Wynne was dead of alcohol poisoning, and three of his fraternity brothers...