Trivia:\u00a0How does Southeast Asia treat its first and only winner of the Nobel Prize?<\/p>\n
Answer: The home country throws her into prison (okay, it was commuted to home arrest…) and others in the region do nothing.<\/p>\n
BANGKOK \u2014 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader, was sentenced Tuesday to three years of hard labor for violating the terms of her house arrest, but her sentence was quickly commuted to a new term of house arrest of up to 18 months. [Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar Is Convicted<\/a><\/em>. Seth Mydans. New York Times. August 11 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not much of an incentive to win a Nobel Prize, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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