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...bureaucrat and mid-level leader for Nepal's pro-monarchy Rashtriya Prajatantra Party. And yet Bhandari, 26, found himself in a mob of thousands last week demanding "King Gyanendra, leave the country, or we will kill you," part of a tide of violent protests ripping across the mountain kingdom. Bhandari isn't sure why he is risking his life, beyond an unformed belief in "freedom" and a burning sense that Gyanendra, Nepal's absolute monarch, is keeping his country in the dark ages. "Everybody feels Nepal is being left behind," he says, as a Royal Nepalese Army helicopter buzzes overhead...
...Executive power of the kingdom of Nepal, which was in our safekeeping, shall from this day be returned to the people," the King said. Gyanendra, who had suspended democracy and seized direct power in February 2005, undertook to hand the reins of government to a prime minister picked by the alliance of seven political parties that has spearheaded the campaign against...
...Protesters chant that they want the King to go. But in conversation they admit they cannot envisage their kingdom without a monarchy. Some speak of their frustration. Others, some mere children, are simply exhilarated at the chance to throw rocks at authority: before the violence started, many were singing and dancing in the streets."We're having some fun here, aren't we?" one shouted to me as he hurled brick after brick. Perhaps. But people are dying, and neither Bogriganal or I see anyone with a plan that will stop...
Producer Nick Barton must have quite the affinity for the stereotypical United Kingdom feel-good comedy, as he follows up 2003’s “Calendar Girls”—pretty much the female “Full Monty”—with another story of big-city lifestyles invading small-town, old-fashioned values. While the formula suceeds by tugging a few heart strings, the humor doesn’t live up to its British roots...
...Jagger took the stage in Shanghai for the first date of the Stones’ landmark tour last week, he answered a few questions for the press. Though the hot topic of the international press was the official ban of several of the raunchier Stones songs in the Middle Kingdom, the two biggest newspapers in Shanghai didn’t even cover the show...