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...head and I want to become like her," she says during a break in practice on a recent morning at the gym that for the last two years has been her home. Ponor's emergence is yet another testament to the durability of Romania's national gymnastics school in Deva, western Romania, which dates from the communist era and continues to produce top gymnasts with only a fraction of the resources of big rivals such as the U.S. and China. The past four years have been particularly rough for national coach Octavian Belu and his team. Andreea Raducan was stripped...
...madness and tackling commercial clutter? Consider a trip to Manhattan's downtown. New York's East Village has a history of anarchy, counterculture and edginess. In keeping with the neighborhood tradition of rebellion, a group of nine entrepreneurs recently formed the Designers of the East Village Association or, simply, DEVA...
...making up their own shopping universe, these stars of style are determined to impede the encroachment of mass merchandisers on their turf. All members of DEVA conceive, create and execute original designs on-site. With goods ranging from haute clothing to one-of-a-kind millinery to jewelry to wearable antiques, DEVA represents a shopping experience where personal touch is the rule. Meet the DEVAs...
...Katmandu courtyard echoing with these priestly chants, TIME's New Delhi correspondent, James Shepherd, last week witnessed the coronation of Nepal's King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva (see THE WORLD). Shepherd first encountered the elaborate ceremonies of the Hindu kingdom in 1956 at the coronation of Birendra's father, Mahendra. The correspondent arrived for that occasion aboard a rickety DC-3 that "slithered low over the Himalayan foothills, searching for the gap in the mountains through which we slipped into the Katmandu Valley." He has since reported on coronations of two other Himalayan monarchs, the Kings...
Died. Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 51, King of the Himalayan state of Nepal and the world's only Hindu monarch; of a heart attack; in Bharatpur, Nepal. Though he was a member of Nepal's royal dynasty, Mahendra was kept a palace prisoner for the first 30 years of his life because real power in his country had long since fallen to the aristocratic Rana family. In 1951, Mahendra and his father King Tribhuvan led a popular revolution that ousted the Ranas, and four years later Mahendra succeeded to both the throne and control of the government...