Much talk in Burma these days on President Thein Sein saying he backed changing the country’s Constitution to allow “any citizen” to become president, apparently a reference to Daw Aung Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize-winning democracy advocate whose “political ambitions have been thwarted for decades by the military,” according to The New York Times. Suu Kyi has said she will run if allowed.

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