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...recess, and the boys head to the courtyard to perform a drill. Three of them, carrying Kalashnikovs carved of wood, step across imaginary mines, break into an enemy post and surround two "Russian" prisoners. The boys act out the taking and holding of the prisoners, the blindfolding and the stiff parade back to the base. What happens next to the prisoners is not acted...
...parents live in a Thai refugee camp, but he kept nagging to join the soldiers. Eventually they let him. The last time he was rotated forward, he could plainly see two Burmese soldiers on the other side of the minefield reinforcing their bunkers with mud and wood. He lifted his carbine to shoot but was sharply ordered to hold his fire. He still seems incredulous about that; the hardest lesson for the children to accept is that ammunition has to be saved...
...There was some sense that Havel would mitigate the embarrassment of having Kohl by himself," Wood says...
...Wood also notes that it is unusual for Harvard to invite a world leader in an election year, a move that might be perceived as a partisan statement...
...often we invite dictators who don't run for reelection," Wood quips...