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...generals by calling on them to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. His appeal came shortly after the U.S. Congress agreed to impose sanctions on Burmese exports, in response to Suu Kyi's May 30 detention and the crackdown on her National League for Democracy. Island Overthrow SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE African leaders led the condemnation of a bloodless military coup while President Fradique deMenezes visited neighboring Nigeria. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira said he merely wanted to draw international attention to the island nation's continuing poverty, despite recently discovered oil reserves. Pereira agreed to talks with outside...
...Harvard being Harvard, many students expressed their feelings with commendable wit and vigor. Then, in an initiative of debatable value, HUDS decided to print for each dining hall a veritable tome of 135 single-sided pages containing every single response to every question on the survey—and hidden among the rough are some gems representing the entire spectrum of academic disciplines...
...mails about starting Math Circles in other cities. While they say they support the idea, they add that they’re hesitant to give too much advice apart from the ground rules about environment. However, those seeking more wisdom from the Math Circle will have a new Kaplan tome to peruse in 2004, entitled Out of the Labyrinth: Mathematics Set Free...
...that revolutionary tome, Diamond attempts to explain why it was the West that won—or why it is European economic and political structures that dominate the world today, as opposed to those of Africa, Oceania or the Americas...
...James, an American now living in Jakarta, must be a fabulous e-mail correspondent. At times heartfelt, at times bitchy, at times full of lies, the messages he pens for his characters positively hum with bon mots. Formerly a critic for The New Yorker and author of a tome called The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe, James spent 1999 living in a bungalow in Bali observing what he calls the "fairy-dust world" that is expatriate life. The offspring of that year is a fun, slightly trashy novel that's quick...