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Though the economy has stalled and high-end tourists have stayed away during the eight years that Nepal has been racked by a Maoist insurgency, the impoverished Himalayan kingdom could always count on two sources of foreign revenue: aid groups and backpackers. Now they are under threat, too. Earlier this month, Maoist guerrillas fighting to overthrow the monarchy and the country's feudal system called for a protracted national transport blockade to starve the capital, Kathmandu, and so to "pressure" the government to call a cease-fire, according to a statement from Maoist spokesman Jhhakku Prasad Subedi...
...seriously did the Walt Disney Co. take the message that a large chunk of shareholders wanted CEO Michael Eisner to return his keys to the Magic Kingdom...
...Another attack like Sept. 11 on the United Kingdom or United States soil will lead to a more draconian response,” he said...
...also reminded the audience that the terrorist threat since 2001 has not simply been for the United States, the United Kingdom, and its allies...
...record eight Harvard affiliates—five undergraduates and three alums—were officially named Gates scholars last Friday, allowing them to pursue graduate studies in a diverse range of fields at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom this fall...