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...More than 3,000 wretched civilians live near the five S.S.A. camps along the Thailand-Burma border. One-tenth of them are orphans. Many others are dazed and traumatized, or missing limbs from land mines. These are all victims of a slow-motion genocide. To cut off popular support for the rebels, the Burmese army drove hundreds of thousands of Shan, Lahu, Pa-O and Akha villagers from their homes across Shan state in an orgy of looting, burning, torture and massacres. Human-rights monitors have documented the rape by Burmese soldiers of hundreds of women and girls, some...
...This is the first opera I saw when I was in tenth grade which made me want to be an opera singer,” says Jessica G. Peritz ’06, who sings the role of Despina...
After shaving one-tenth of a second off Tigers sophomore Eileen Altenburger’s lead—then 0.61 seconds—Nadeau flew through the final 50 yards, sprinting into the lead with a burst of speed before touching the wall with a final-leg low 31.59, 0.75 seconds faster than Altenburger’s and good for a 0.14-second...
...over Yale was sealed by that second place performance and fellow freshman Annika Giesbrecht’s one-tenth of a point victory on the three-meter board...
...cram 500 channels of listings into its pocket-size format, has seen its circulation (9 million) drop to less than half of its 1960s numbers. Mad, which long ago lost the monopoly on irreverent kid humor - where isn?t adolescent ribaldry nowadays? - sells only about 250,000 copies, a tenth as many as it did in the early 70s. (This year will see the 50th anniversary of another Eisenhower-era magazine, Sports Illustrated, which is still doing fine...