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...reading “Wolf Totem” by Jiang Rong, but right now I’m so busy writing, I have all these books stacked up that I have not yet read. I have this book, Stephen King's "Under the Dome" sitting here. It’s definitely the carrot at the end of the stick to finish the show. I’m saving some books until I write the end of the finale. I’m excited about that...
...active group of parents won a two-week effort on Tuesday protesting a 2010-2011 school year budget cut proposal that would affect a bilingual immersion program for Portuguese-English speakers at the King Open School in Cambridge...
Elizabeth Hammond, a parent who spearheaded the movement to keep the OLA program unchanged, said that the proposed changes would have “[undone] how the program worked.” She also said that the teachers at the King Open School were “devastated” about the possible adjustments to the program...
...graduated from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun - so the Maoists have long claimed, most famously in a fiery speech by Prachanda in December, that India backs the Nepal army and wants to restore the monarchy. Ironically, the influence of India is the one point on which the former King and the Maoist former Prime Minister agree. When Gyanendra was on the throne, he too chafed at any hint of excessive Indian influence. It may be an inevitable dilemma for a small country squeezed between two giants - and one that Nepal has less than three months to resolve...
...Both countries have a majority Hindu population, and they share millions of cross-border migrant workers. But the character of that relationship has changed. India used to engage Nepal only at the highest levels, in meetings between bureaucrats, ministers and - until Gyanendra stepped down in 2008 - representatives of the King. That has changed dramatically over the last few years, since Nepal's Maoists came to power in a 2006 peace agreement that ended the monarchy, halted a decade-long insurgency and set the country on the road to democracy. The Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, has cultivated...