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...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman
...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman
...LATEST COVER STORY The Wa: Burma's Drug Cartel Ne Win: Death of a Strongman
...incomplete and that he didn’t have the tools to write about what he wanted to exactly. So, in the past few weeks, he changed his topic to something else he had been exploring while in Asia—the phenomenon of internally displaced people in Burma due to ongoing civil strife...
...elements familiar to Heart of Darkness buffs: the madness, the river, the oppressive imperialism. Like Conrad's tale, Mason's book traces a treacherous journey into the remote reaches of the empire. In this case, the voyager is a Brit named Edgar Drake, sent to the jungles of Burma in the late 1800s to find a man and repair a concert grand piano. Perhaps Heart of Darkness is an inescapable influence. But as Mason settles into his tale, the Victorian stuffiness melts. Drake, a confused man too modern for his time, takes the Burma assignment to escape the strictures...