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...King Gyanendra of Nepal hold onto power? As a civil war with Maoist rebels rages in the Himalayan hills, in the capital of Kathmandu the outcry against Gyanendra's rule is intensifying. Thousands have taken to the streets in the past three weeks, burning cars, smashing shops and skirmishing with police. Demonstrators accuse Gyanendra of trying to return to the days when Nepal's kings were considered gods. They demand that he restore the elected government that he scrapped in October 2002 and replaced with his own royalist administration...
...course they are. But ever since the days when the council (and for that matter, The Crimson and, generally, the student body) was easily distracted by fawning over its favorite Maoist group or concerned about the plight of Colombian coffee-growers, there’s been a yearning in the council for a cool, calculated logic to guide its proceedings. Here enters a tricky argument that challenges that calculus through which the council has regained its credibility. Should the council ever make a conscious funding decision based on a magazine’s content? We might, of course, play...
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...
...After 20 days on the stuff (for research purposes, you understand), it becomes clear that tongba has varying degrees of smoothness akin to single malt or blended whiskies. Sampling it from village to village has the feel of a tour of Scottish distilleries. Maoist rebels may have enforced restrictions and even bans on drink in areas under their control, but many households still have a wee dram ready for a friendly foreigner with a few words of Nepali. Tongba's heartwarming kick is especially welcome during the winter, which incidentally is the best time for visiting the country: fewer tourists...
...photocopying or making coffees for her. “I’ve spent my life at Harvard thinking of cool things to do with my summers,” says Truszkowska. This intrepid traveler has spent her breaks away from school living with Spanish bullfighters, dodging Maoist insurgencies in Nepal’s more remote areas, living in the mountains of Eastern Europe, and sleeping with machetes in the jungles of Costa Rica...