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Travel in Burma for long enough and you will eventually hear the name, often whispered with something approaching awe: Mongla. It sounds a bit like Shangri-la, and for some Burmese?who have lived under military rule since 1962?it is. "There are no soldiers there," marveled one Burmese friend. "There it is like," he struggled to find a word to describe a place without Burmese soldiers. "There it is like democracy...
...Well, not quite. Situated in Burma's Shan state, less than a mile from the Chinese border, Mongla is ruled by a brutal heroin trafficker and has an unsavory reputation as a freewheeling center for gambling and prostitution. Yet, curiously, the Burmese regime is promoting it as a model town. Why? To find out, I hired a car and driver and set out for Mongla?the town that drugs built...
Simon L. Sternin '01, a supervisor for the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, explains his reluctance to leave: "My parents live in Burma, and I'm also a senior working on my thesis," Sternin said...
...Lewis began as a journeyman director (sample titles: "Blazing Six Shooters," "Bombs Over Burma"). He let the nondescript nature of his assignments serve as a springboard for experimentation, framing shots in the most unconventional ways - and thus "Wagon Wheel Joe" was born. Lewis told Peter Bogdanovich in an interview that appears in the book "Who the Devil Made It," I thought to myself 'How can I distract the audience from this... I put a wagon wheel in front of the camera; you looked at it - it was an artistic shot - and before you could analyze the scene, it was over...
...cultural events, ordinance foes like Ohanian attorney Bruce Rogow say Miami is in violation of federal law. "Local and state governments can't set up their own foreign policy," says Rogow. The U.S. Supreme Court may decide the issue this month when it rules on Massachusetts' commercial ban against Burma's dictatorship. Meanwhile, some younger Cuban Americans, like dance instructor Omar Caraballo, are increasingly critical of Miami's policy. "It's selfish not to let me experience my cultural roots in my own city," says Caraballo, 24. The question is whether the federal courts will get in step...