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...parties and the Maoists try to claim ownership of the protests, they are bigger than any one organization. Professors, civil servants, lawyers, even a gay rights group, have declared their allegiance to "the movement." But the movement itself is largely made up of teenage or twenty-something kids in Nirvana and Metallica T-shirts. "You cannot say this is the Maoists, or the parties," says Bodriganal as we watch another pitched battle a street away, where police and demonstrators hurl bricks at each other over a barricade of burning tires. "Doctors, engineers, pilots are all there. It's the people...
...Chinese housewives buying genuine American DVDs at a Wal-Mart in Shanghai is about as close to trade nirvana as it gets for the U.S. these days. If there were more?lots more?Chinese with Wu's buying habits, the strident anti-China rhetoric coming from Washington could be dismissed as election-year political theater, rather than portents of a potentially damaging rupture in the commercial relations between the two countries. Simply put, China sells far more stuff to the U.S.?more than $200 billion last year?than the U.S. sells to China, a situation economists (and many politicians...
...free of patchouli-scented obscurities. To read about her struggles with a 182-verse Sanskrit chant, or her (successful) attempt to meditate while being feasted on by mosquitoes, is to come about as close as you can to enlightenment-by-proxy. She even has an ecstatic brush with Nirvana, which leaves her with a comforting insight into heaven: "You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here...
...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-a-night flophouses and restaurants promiscuously serving "lasagna, tacos, chow mein, borscht and mousaka a La Greece...
Harvard students will no longer need to mooch off Boloco’s free wireless to feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless...