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...long ago, few in Nepal believed Pushpa Kamal Dahal actually existed. The Maoist guerrilla leader was a creature of myth - no one knew what he looked like or in which mountain fastness he hid or quite how he and his fighters, ragtag and ill-equipped, had managed to plunge Nepal into a decade-long civil war that claimed 13,000 lives. But now all know Prachanda, the nom de guerre by which Dahal is more often referred, as not only a man of flesh and blood, but of suits and expensive pens. As results filter in from Nepal's April...
...attend schools geared towards those careers, such as Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.“The impression I got was that there wasn’t that much interest among the students that I knew in international careers,” Howard says, adding that he believes recruitment efforts are more focused on finding minorities outside of the Northeast to improve diversity. Sandy Hessler, however, director of professional development at KSG, attributes the waning involvement in the public sector not to KSG recruiting techniques...
...muse over philosophical questions, Gilbert settled in Denver. By age 18, he was married and had a son and was writing science fiction stories on his typewriter. While he received encouraging feedback and sold some stories, he was honest with himself about his shortcomings: “I knew nothing about literature. I wasn’t even a good speller,” he recalls...
...hosting one or two prefrosh in our room. I went to bed and woke up to the sounds of girls giggling. I walked out to our common room and saw five prefrosh girls all around this one guy, giggling and huddled around him... That’s when I knew I’d be friends with this man forever...
This one girl was here for prefrosh weekend, but since she knew she had to take two years off to be in the Israeli army, she wanted a wild night. She wanted to go to a Roxy party, but was only 17, so she asked my blockmate for her ID to use. We’ve never hosted prefrosh since...