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...family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari, founder of Sparkle, Nepal's only all-female rock band, told listeners...
...after the earthquake jolted the subcontinent?it was felt as far away as Nepal and Bangladesh?the cries of the trapped victims began to grow faint throughout western India. In Ahmedabad, distraught parents flocked to a school which imploded, trapping 39 children and several teachers inside. Rescue workers said that during the first wave of tremors, the children were herded into a stairwell. Then the walls came tumbling down. "My only son is in there," wailed one woman. "I know he's still alive." But her hope dimmed every time firemen and volunteers extracted another tiny corpse from the site...
...watched men and women and children in satin robes burn a cross on her lawn; and who as a college student joined an armed protest to demand a black-studies program at Cornell University. She felt she had two choices after graduation: become a Black Panther or return to Nepal (where she had spent part of her junior year) to study at a Tibetan monastery...
...years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision, and elusive, perhaps, even to himself. The hope now rises that the legend can rest in peace...
...more of us to dwell on the past, our anchor), we find ourselves, more than ever, doing the splits, with one foot racing toward the future and the other firmly rooted in the past. "Fast" cultures fret over Y2K, and slower ones, some even with their own calendar (in Nepal or Ethiopia, say) hardly acknowledge that a new millennium is coming at all. The jangledness of inhabiting several time frames at once is the hallmark of our jet-lagged age. The clappers bang together on the sidewalk in Toronto, but they mark a clock without a face...