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...That encounter, to Sandhya's relief, never came to pass. In 1996, as a 14-year-old student from a town north of the capital Kathmandu, she joined Nepal's Maoist cadres at the moment when their armed insurgency had just begun to take hold of this rugged Himalayan nation, long a magnet for foreign backpackers and adventurers. Her father's military income meant Sandhya did not grow up among the country's many poor, but she chafed under the rigid caste laws and gender norms that blunted her parents' ambitions and stripped her of the same opportunities...
...shopping spree may have lessened Gaza's crisis, but many say the long-term solution rests with Israel. Chris Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which feeds as many as 850,000 impoverished Gazans, says, "A few holes in the wall don't relieve Israel of its obligations. We can't have a situation where Gaza continues to hover on the brink of catastrophe." Israel, for its part, continues to blame Hamas?and the constant threat of rocket attacks against Israeli civilians?for the blockade...
...Last month, he said he hoped that the news of the appointment would come soon, pointing to the relief he has witnessed in his predecessor Gross, a man now free of the deanship’s responsibilities...
...seems clear from recent actions by our nation’s top universities that there is much that can be accomplished...to control costs and provide real relief for students from low and middle income families,” the senators wrote...
...battlefield. The report blamed the politicians and the top brass of "equivocation" which "hurt Israel" by dithering over whether to launch the ground attack or seek a political end the war. Nevertheless, the report stated: "The goals of the ground operation were legitimate." That was a great relief to Olmert...