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...Mawdsley's self-important tendencies can make him a target for mockery, and his admirable if maddening memoir The Iron Road is, at times, a bull's-eye. In Burma, a nation where so many suffer, the 29-year-old Briton's willing decision to add his pain to the mix can seem self-indulgent and quixotic. And yet, ultimately, Mawdsley comes across, like Don Quixote, as sympathetic, even a touch heroic. His heart is in the right place, even if the rest of him never seems...
...otherwise bland. He is arrested after sneaking back into Burma in 1998, and when he withholds his identity from police, they torture him. It's nothing that would make Amnesty International's Hall of Fame, but it is terrifying, and Mawdsley makes you feel it. Worst might be the "iron road," where a metal rod is rolled up and down the victim's shins until the skin is stripped to the bone. The terror almost leads him to abandon his mission...
When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, some wondered whether he would ever prove himself half the man the Iron Lady had been. Edwina Currie's newly published diaries - in which the novelist and former Conservative minister reveals that she and Major had an affair from 1984 to '88 - should ensure that the former Tory leader will never again be so easily underestimated. Since the book came out, Currie has added details about the liaison, including how she and Major planned assignations as they sat behind Thatcher during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons...
Harvard janitors established a separate contract last February and are not participating in the strike. Still, the rally enjoyed widespread support from other union members—hotel workers and iron workers from as far as Kansas City attended to show their solidarity...
...found. Aek Stadium, the planned venue, suffered earthquake damage in 1999 and was deemed unsuitable. Negotiations to secure the Karaiskaki Stadium, home of the Olympiakos football team, collapsed in bickering. The delay in building and securing venues has meant that many of the 40 test events held to iron out wrinkles in the sporting facilities have been delayed. Some tests will now take place as late as May 2004, leaving just three months to make fixes. Building venues for the 28 sports - not to mention housing for 10,500 athletes, 21,000 journalists, 3,100 judges and officials - is only...