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...handed disdain for the democratic process. The Shah dynasty, proprietors of a 250-year lineage, has been virtually eradicated in a few bursts of gunfire. Nepalese are still pondering the gruesome narrative of the massacre. But their longer-term question is: Into what kind of society is our mountain kingdom evolving...
...etymologist in me prefers “Parthian shot” to “parting shot”: the former version of the phrase retains the allusion to Parthia, that ancient West Asian kingdom whose inhabitants employed the charming tactic of firing arrows backwards while they were fleeing, or pretending to flee, battles. Treat this column as a series of shots from Southeast Asia. I have no advice to give. I’m just telling my (unabashedly enthusiastic) story...
...What is it that binds Asia together? Long grain rice? Pegged currencies? Excessive humidity? McDonald's, free trade and air conditioning are eradicating those common cultural touchstones. And now the last great Asian unifier?thick, leaded, URBAN SMOG?is under threat by culturally insensitive Europeans. Last year, the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, with technical assistance from Denmark, introduced a clean alternative to the three-wheeled, polluting TEMPOS and TUK-TUKS that ply Asia's cities. More than 600 electric three-wheelers now operate in Kathmandu, and while they are cleaner and safer than their internal combustion counterparts, we mourn...
...Mark Antony and the twin of her second son, Alexander Helios-is identified as the subject of a rare marble portrait statue found in Cherchel, Algeria. On loan from that city's Archaeological Museum, the statue has never been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...
...tyrant, Lord Farquaad, has been torturing the Gingerbread Man. "No, not my buttons, not my gumdrop buttons!" his brave but hapless victim piteously cries. Just why his lordship takes such violent umbrage at fairy-tale creatures is not clear. But he decrees that they all be exiled from his kingdom to Shrek's fen, which irritates the monster...