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...three soldiers survived. The attack, four days after the sixth anniversary of the Maoist rebellion, was the bloodiest to date: the rebels killed 141 soldiers, policemen and civilians, including Khadka, intelligence officer Lok Eaj Upreti and Upreti's wife. The Maoists butchered all three upper-caste Nepalis with an ax...
...oldest no more than 22. They took me out on the porch where they bound my hands behind my back and tied my legs together at the ankles. They brought a big rock and put it under my knee. One girl showed me a very large ax. While 12 girls held me down, three other girls took turns hacking at me. Blood and pieces of my bones shot up in the air?it was all over the porch wall next morning." Doctors amputated the man's right leg below the knee. Dr. Mahindra Kumar Nepal, executive director of the capital...
AmeriCorps survived the ax each year--barely. Now Bush aims to expand it by spending an additional $230 million for 25,000 more volunteers. And Bush wants $10 million for teaching support programs, $50 million to expand Senior Corps (foster grandparents and companions) and $40 million over five years to double the Peace Corps (especially in Islamic countries). The Citizen Corps will tap the naturally nosy--doormen, truckers, postmen--to report anything that looks suspicious to a new terrorist hot line. Unfurling Freedom Corps allows the President to bring the war home, to dress the entire country in green fatigues...
...corner dressed, as he put it, in “a robe, Renaissance style hat and an evil-looking smile.” (He’s Machiavelli.) Over by the hors d’oeuvres table you spot a graduate student with a fake ax protruding from his back and a sign explanatory sign taped to his chest—it reads: “Assistant Professor...
...share responsibilities--has grown to 15% from 10% a decade ago. "Family courts are flooded with fathers clamoring to be part of their children's lives," says Jayne Major, who runs a Los Angeles support group for parents in custody disputes. "I tell them, 'Unless you are the ax murderer of the century, you have a legal right to your children...