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Burma's Numerological Nightmare

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Jul 30, 2011
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When a fortune teller outranks policy experts as a head of state’s most trusted advisor, you begin to understand why a country can fall so spectacularly into ruin. That has been the case for successive Burmese leaders, whose subservience to higher powers has led to some extraordinarily bizarre decisions.

The fear of the supernatural trickles right down t…

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