Torching the Olympics

Under the bright noon sun, Nyunt Than, 46, gathered with 100 Burma supporters along the San Francisco Bay waterfront, and waited anxiously for a designated runner carrying the Olympic torch to pass before them. San Francisco is the only U.S. stop in on the torch's world tour in 2008.

Festooned in maroon robes, in honor of the Buddhist monks silenced in Burma, the excited and angry activists… » Full Story on Salon.com