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...state-sponsored thugs, who killed or injured scores of her supporters and so provoked tough new economic sanctions by the U.S. In the past, either event might have sparked a popular uprising on the scale witnessed in 1988, when the Burmese military shot and jailed thousands of demonstrators. The reaction this time?nothing, not a peep of protest?reflects how ruthlessly the Burmese junta has terrorized its own people. Washington's sanctions have boosted morale among Burma's embattled democrats, but they promise little apart from further poverty and desperation in a country ravaged by military greed and incompetence...
...limit the number of A-range grades to an arbitrary percentage. The premise for this cap is that there is indeed a problem of grade inflation. Is there really a problem? If so, what are the objective conditions that identify the problem, more substantively than just a reaction to the grade charts...
Sondheim, 74, was padding around his ritzy Manhattan town house (Katharine Hepburn used to live next door) on a recent weekday afternoon, looking a bit scruffy in an oversize T shirt but talking animatedly about the show that he was always surprised got such a "virulent" negative reaction. The most celebrated Broadway composer of the past 30 years hasn't had a new show on Broadway in 10--since Passion, which ran for eight months in 1994. The days when Sondheim shows like Company and Follies seemed to be opening doors for musical theater are long gone. After years...
...Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, got 7%. Support for the New National Party, the reconstituted former apartheid ruling party, collapsed, falling from 7% to less than 2%. MEANWHILE IN CANADA ... Drive Softly, Safely Researchers in Newfoundland have found that listening to loud, up-tempo music while driving slows motorists' reaction time by up to 20%. British motoring organization the RAC Foundation released a list of the most dangerous tunes to drive to. The worst: Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. For safety behind the wheel, the group recommends easy-listening tunes like Gary Jules' Mad World...
...turned into a nation of nesters and began eating chicken potpies at home while wearing pearls and sweater sets. But, says Françoise Serralta of Peclers Paris, an international trend-forecasting agency, the shift really started earlier, in anticipation of the new millennium: "Sept. 11 only speeded up a reaction to what was already happening." The ongoing terrorist threat, sluggish economy and war in Iraq have helped fuel the thirst for nostalgia, but there are other factors at work...