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Early morning in yangon. among the crush of commuters, shoppers, people trying to make a living rise up the last remnants of empire. faded, often crumbling, but still there after all of these years. these are the offices, businesses, and public buildings of the british colonials. this building was once one of the finest department stores in rangoon. a century ago in kipling s people, mandolay was beckoning the young british citizens, here you could buy liquor and cigars, ....
Bring down the gambinos. he fought to rub out white collar crime, deliver justice to terrorists and just about impossible to find a matter of justice he has not tackled and it s hard to imagine somebody who is not more uniquely qualified to lead a bureau that covers all of it. traditional threats like violent and organized crime to the constantly changing threats like terrorism and cyber security. so he s got the resume. but of course, jim is also a famously cool character. the calmest in the room during a crisis. here is what a fellow former prosecutor said about him. he said, you know that kipling line, if you can keep your head when all about you are losing ....
We re not the indians. we re the united states of america. there comes with that a kind of burden for wars. do you agree with that? because this is, become the long weekend i ve been a foreign correspondent long enough to realize what the american people want from the rest of the world is to forget about it. and that they usually only get interested in foreign policy on the basis of pity, fear or anger, and those are very short-lived emotions. if the united states wants to been an imperial power, it has to have long-term commitments. this is not a political system that gravitates toward those kinds of commitments. so i think the idea that we should plunge into countries and fight the savage wars of peace, as kipling used to say, is a very dangerous one for the united states. and i think most people think syria is not our war. i think what you re saying, and i saw you sort of flinch when he said that, and i don t know if that was in agreement or not. ....
In rangoon. a century ago in kipling s poem, young englishmen, you could buy fine egyptian cigarettes, french liqueurs. the floor tiles were shipped over from manchester. now people live here. a half century of a pariah state has left very few of these buildings in good repair. there are divergent views on whether to preserve them. for many a reminder of colonial subjugation, for others, a vestige of a golden time. these days in myanmar in the streets, on the docks, it s all about moving forward. in an economy ripe to explode if things continue trending in ....
These are the offices, businesses, and public buildings of the british colonials. this building was once one of the swankest department stores in rangoon. a century ago in kipling s poem young englishmen, you could buy fine egyptian cigarettes, french liqueurs. the floor tiles were shipped over from manchester. now people live here. a half century as a pariah state has left very few of these buildings in good repair. and there are divergent views on whether to preserve em. for many a reminder of colonial subjugation, for others, a vestige of a golden time. ....