You go, girl

Laura Bush gets the spotlight on Burma. Mrs. Laura Bush watches as an English student works at the chalkboard of a grammar class at the Mae La Refugee Camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Aug. 7, 2008. White House photo by Shealah Craighead. The first lady visited a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand. The Bushes are using their trip to the Beijing Olympics to remind the world of the problems in Burma and China. The full cutline from the White House included this: The English lesson on the chalkboard uses the sentence to discuss compound sentence structure: “My life in refugee is better than Burma but I don’t have opportunity to go outside of my camp.” The visit to the camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, highlighted the fact that it has been 20 years since the crackdown in Burma that sent many people fleeing the dire conditions. Many residents... [read full story]