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...once hailed as a potential reformer for suggesting dialogue with long-imprisoned democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now languishes under house arrest himself. Despite scattered reports of soldiers refusing to shoot against Buddhist monk-led demonstrators last week, most of the wide-eyed recruits obeyed orders. "Burma's military is a breed apart, and its biggest accomplishment is the sense of loyalty that it has bred," says Josef Silverstein, a Burma expert and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "Few forces appear so unified...
...such civic-wide obsession began to wane as television crept in during the 1980s and Indians were exposed to the wider, far superior world of sports. "The knowledge seeped in that we weren't very good," says Bhimani. The militant sense of east-west ethnic pride faded with the partition generation and today support for the two clubs has to do less with regional identity and more with plain club loyalty. Imported Brazilian and Nigerian players now star for both sides and routinely swap teams. The bulk of the upper and middle classes who once passionately cared about Kolkata football...
Legal experts say prosecutors enjoy wide latitude in deciding whom to charge in criminal cases. But according to Laurie Levenson, a former assistant U.S. Attorney and a prominent expert in legal ethics at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, there are limits. "Certainly prosecutors would face a professional obligation to check out or verify the allegations in this case," she says. "Not doing so would represent a potential abuse of prosecutorial discretion." The key, she adds, is whether prosecutors chose not to pursue evidence of criminal activity by Republicans because of political bias or a conflict of interest. Sometimes prosecutors...
Following last week’s loss to Lehigh, three Harvard players were named to the Ivy League honor roll. Pizzotti, freshman running back Gino Gordon, and captain defensive end Brad Bagdis all made the weekly list, a week after O’Hagan, senior wide receiver Corey Mazza, and senior cornerback Steve Williams were chosen...
...perception of Myanmar is not entirely correct. “There’s a picture drawn of Burma in the west of being a very totalitarian police state,” he said, but “very close to the surface there’s a very wide, very deep opposition to the government.” McDowell, who is on leave from his position to study at the Kennedy School, encouraged the students to add their voices to the protest against the regime. “The government isn’t going to evaporate on their...