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...lengths of stinging-nettle vine. Instead, Bhutanese women cluster near the male archers and take sole responsibility for keeping them from piercing the bull's-eye. "We distract them by singing rude songs," says Tshering Chhoden. "It's all part of the game." Adds her fellow Bhutanese Dhruba Kumar Chhetri: "The best thing to say is that the archer's wife has been sleeping around. That makes his concentration slip a little." Luckily, the modern Olympics give Bhutanese women a chance to do more than warble insults about a man's supposedly wandering wife. As the nation's top female...
...trainers and a fridge full of optimal training food, athletes from these smaller nations exist in an alternate universe of constant anonymity and more-than-occasional cash crunches. "I heard the team from Kiribati is selling its [Olympic-souvenir] pins so they have enough money for daily living," whispers Chhetri, Bhutan's Olympic chief of mission, referring to the tiny South Pacific nation that is participating in its inaugural Games. Chhetri hands out two Olympic pins as a gift, anxious to show that Bhutan suffers no such difficulties...
...army and the Maoists," he says. "The Maoists come to them at night and demand food and shelter. If they refuse, the guerrillas kill them. But in the morning, the army comes and kills anyone who has helped the Maoists." In February, the army accused teacher Jeet Bahadur Khatri Chhetri of aiding the Maoists, beat him so badly he could not walk for a week, then forced him to sign a declaration supporting the government. Last month, a neighbor in the village of Pancha Kule was tortured by the Maoists and denounced Khatri Chhetri as the man who persuaded...
...dressed in cast-off clothes from her customers and friends. At the end of each day she goes home to a tiny room she cannot afford?it costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that she could not deliver him a son?or even a daughter. So he threw...
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