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The British, trying to hold together an ethnic patchwork of a colony, knew too well the perils of Burma's tribal politics. They resorted to divide-and-conquer schemes, much as the current military regime has done. Intense negotiations by the junta led to many ethnic insurgencies laying down their...
The inequity is straining the network of fragile cease-fires in tribal areas. "We have sent many letters registering our complaints to the government, but we haven't heard back," says Colonel Gun Maw. Not hearing back from the Burmese junta is something to which the spokesman for the Kachin...
It's easy to spread the blame for this sorry state of affairs. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the G20, an informal grouping that has none of the bureaucratic trappings that can help ensure fine words are turned into concrete action. Reaching a consensus among the...
Over the course of too many years in this business, I have discovered that my two worst sins are anger and impatience. Anger is a double-edged sword--sometimes it is entirely justified (as when directed against the shameless torture-enabler Dick Cheney, who persists in fouling our public airwaves...
In the foggy gray abyss between the well-charted territory of varsity athletes and non-athletes lies a land previously untouched by many members of the Harvard community. It lurks all around us, and its citizens increasingly grow in numbers. And yet it stays just under the radar of the...