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Young, handsome and smarter than a truckful of generals, Ko Myo is a teacher by profession and my guide to the arcane politics of Burma. Thankfully, he's a patient one. On my first trip to Burma, he had bravely taken me to the house of a prominent democrat. Stupidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

Suicide bombing is a relatively new horror undergoing constant refinement. It was pioneered in the early '80s by Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim extremist group Hizballah, which was inspired by Iran's use of human minesweepers during its war with Iraq. In one assault a fanatic drove a truckful of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicide Attacks: Why The Bombers Keep Coming | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Haiti's military leadership is growing less tolerant of dissent as the threat of U.S. invasion looms. Last night, hours after the regime had declared a state of siege, a truckful of soldiers and armed civilians opened fire on a former member of the Haitain Senate, Reynald Georges, an outspoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI . . . JUNTA SHOOTS DISSIDENT, SILENCES MEDIA | 8/2/1994 | See Source »

Then they lectured the soldiers. "We are people and you are people! Why do you have no feelings?" a demonstrator screamed. "You should think about what you are doing," another exhorted a truckful of soldiers. At the intersection of Gongzhufen, five miles west of Tiananmen, thousands flooded around a convoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: State of Siege | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

THERE ARE some of the sad but true facts I learned while on a trip to the San Ysidro Mexican border. I have already taken much flak from friends for being in the second car of a high speed chase during which the Border Patrol scared a truckful of illegal...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Border Order | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

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