Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Bertil Lintner on Sasakawa Foundation --

which works in Burma and for "research concerning Burma" and its checquered past.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9487

A Merchant Ivory movie--The White Countess--Russian exiles in Shanghai, 1936, a blind man played by LiamNeeson--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQo1NoNwwtc I think this movie isjust exquisite--like their When the Rains Came.