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When I first set foot in Bhutan 16 years ago, the "Land of Hidden Treasures" defined its relation to development very simply: it was not, and would never become, Nepal. "Women who will have sex with anyone. Pot, marijuana. People sleeping in the street"-I can still remember a Bhutanese official's voice shaking as he described the "low-class" foreigners his nation had watched streaming into its Himalayan neighbor. Nepalmed by what had come in through its open doors, a Kathmandu that had, up till 1955, barely seen a road was cluttered with Nirvana Tours agencies, 50-cents...
...first law of modern life is that everything is as impermanent as an image on a screen; the only form of continuity (the Buddhist monks in Thimphu or Kathmandu might have told us) is change. Suddenly, Nepal, haunted by violent Maoist insurgents on the one hand and an autocratic King on the other, is the country that is difficult for tourists to enjoy, its streets silent after dark, its character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels...
...into global trouble-spots is imperative today, especially as international tensions rise. We, as students, refused to sit idly by, and rallied for support in our efforts to help address—on some small scale—the grave challenges our world faces, from Zimbabwe to Venezuela, from Nepal to Israel. Our labors, we believe, can make a difference. By supporting its students, Harvard contributes to understanding both at the global level and, more noticeably, at the undergraduate level. When writing on events such as the recent brutal house demolitions in Zimbabwe’s “Clean...
...Upon taking over on Feb. 1, 2005, the King said he was assuming power to crush Nepal's Maoist rebellion, which has claimed 12,000 lives. Instead, his repressive policies over the past year have helped unite the Maoists with the mainstream opposition: the rebels declared a unilateral cease-fire last September and forged a loose alliance with Nepal's seven main political parties. The Maoists ended their cease-fire on Jan. 2; since then they have killed at least 25 government troops and police. The King's hard-line approach has international observers worried about his ability to maintain...
...been almost a year since Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power, arresting hundreds of opposition figures and ending the country's 14-year experiment with democracy. There's every sign now that the King plans to continue in this autocratic vein. In an attempt to head off pro-democracy protests, police detained more than 100 politicians and activists in predawn raids last Thursday, while the government cut phone lines and ordered the army to enforce a daytime curfew in the capital. But tens of thousands of protesters defied the crackdown on Saturday, shouting "Gyanendra leave Nepal" and fighting pitched battles...