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Aung San Suu Kyi: The Lady Walks Free Again (Burma)

Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest to a Burma that, while still in the generals' grip, is changing fast. To get things done, she will have to learn how to be more than an icon of democracy

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Go Figure (Art)

The human motif wandering through Euan Macleod's work reflects, in some ways, his own dogged journey

The Ugly Briton (Books)

A scholarly account of Churchill's role in the Bengal famine leaves his reputation in tatters

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A Lady Called Hope

A Chinese dissident tells what Aung San Suu Kyi's long fight against tyranny means for him

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