Over the past year she has gradually softened her opposition to lifting them, says the BBC's Jonathan Head.

BBC: Suu Kyi calls for further easing of Burma sanctions

When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield