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...year ago, for much of the disorder. Red YCL banners around parts of Kathmandu urge Nepalis to report "suspicious, reactionary activity" to cell-phone numbers emblazoned on the cloth. As soon as night falls in the capital - which, as a bastion for the King's army, had been safe during all of the years of the civil war - the usually teeming streets grow deserted. "The police have no motivation at all right now," complains Kanak Dixit, editor of Himal magazine and an outspoken advocate of democracy. "There is an alarming surge in crime...
...subway station, bus routes, streams of traffic and the footfall of 10 million visitors a year. For Moylan, stripping out the jungle of street furniture will be a riposte to some decades-old assumptions about road use and the nature of risk. "Pavements were not designed to keep pedestrians safe," he says, "but so you could walk the street without getting your feet covered in horse dung...
Morris: I think we thought we were safe from the rest of the world. That we were untouchable perhaps. And I think to a great extent some of the public continues to choose to think that, regardless of what happened on September...
Even at this early juncture, with a full month and eight conference tilts remaining, it’s fairly safe to say that Harvard is the class of the ECAC. With two wins apiece over its traditional neighbors at the top of the conference standings, St. Lawrence and Dartmouth, now in hand, the Crimson (17-1-0, 14-0-0 ECAC) has built itself a comfortable cushion in the scramble for the top seed and home-ice advantage in the season-ending ECAC Tournament. On Sunday, No. 2 Harvard completed its regular-season sweep of the league?...
...less royal. Tens of thousands of Javanese came out to pay their last respects today in this small town in central Java, lining the steep hills overlooking the spectacular rice fields that feed this nation of more than 230 million people. Beneath hundreds of banners that read HAVE A SAFE TRIP FROM THE PEOPLE OF SOLO, old ladies walked for miles under the sweltering midday sun just to catch a glimpse of the ambulance carrying the Javanese native to his family cemetery. "When he was around you could feel his presence," said Endah, a local housewife that had been waiting...