After dinner at the chiefery we assembled on the courtyard veranda to hear the singing of the Papara himeme chorus.

The balance or goose-step introduced for their practice excites a fever of disgust.

I knew how eager they [new recruits to the All Burma Students' Democratic Front] were to fight the Burma Army, which they perceived as no better than a private army protecting Ne Win's narcokleptocracy.

She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat.