Yet the drama is framed with great elegance, and, in the pathos of Piccoli an old man as harried as a child we feel how weighty and stifling the robes of state must be.

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The Information Ministry initially identified the fatalities as three Myanmar citizens: a tour guide and an 11-year-old child on board the plane, and a man riding a motorcycle on the road where the plane came down.

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You can have a child die in the morning and then save an 80-year-old man's life in the afternoon, the emotions are up and down.

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