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...chief, who packed some of his own boxes for the move across West Executive Avenue from his old office, had been on the job just one full day when Rob Portman, the Trade ambassador and a strong communicator, was named to succeed him as director of the Office of Management and Budget. The next morning, press secretary Scott McClellan appeared on the South Lawn with Bush to announce to reporters in a choked voice that he would leave his job in two or three weeks, a few months short of three years at the podium. McClellan, considered "family" because...
...That's when "the movement," as the protests are dubbed, was born. "Popular anger exploded," British Ambassador Keith Bloomfield told TIME. For around two weeks, young Nepalese have clashed with police and soldiers along a ring road surrounding the city, hurling bricks, burning barricades of tires, and dodging tear gas, baton charges and the occasional live round. Last Thursday police shot dead three people in the southwest neighborhood of Kalanki, according to the body count at the city's Model Hospital, where staff said two were killed by pistol shots to the head. On Saturday the protesters got to within...
...wish. Some of the King's associates seem to believe his days may be numbered. "He felt he had to take over, or we would all be Maoists by now," says a friend of the royal family. "But he miscalculated. He made mistakes. He has no support now." British Ambassador Bloomfield reckons Gyanendra could even decide to abdicate: "He may say, 'I don't want to be a constitutional monarch,' and go into exile...
...Ambassador Bloomfield says the "meltdown" scenario if the King abdicated is "far-fetched" and that a new civilian government could quickly exert control. Out on the streets, even the demonstrators express reservations about life without a monarch. "No one has a clear road map for what might happen after the King," says one, 26-year-old Ravi Shah, an administrator with a youth-education charity. "We've had a system of Kings for 237 years. Is it possible to just throw them out?" Bhandari concurs. He says that whatever the King's faults, the older generation still revere...
...Staffers are coming and going at the White House in what it's irresistible to compare to a spring cleaning. Some will move on for good, long-planned opportunities, as Towey did. Others, it's been hinted, will be asked to leave. On Monday, the trade ambassador, Rob Portman, a well-liked former Republican Congressman from Ohio, moved over to be the President's budget director. Indeed, the new chief of staff, Josh Bolten, has made it clear that anybody who's thinking of leaving should do it soon. The resignation of Scott McClellan on Wednesday - along with expected announcements...