Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passage through Singapore, this time under the eyes of a special team of U.S. agents, trained to track a seasoned operative, who photographed it all. According to an FBI affidavit that details some of the evidence against him, one morning Nicholson left his $300-a-night room at the Shangri-La Hotel and scuttled through the nearby streets for four hours on what any rookie spy would call a "surveillance-detection run." Along the way he backtracked, studied passing faces closely to see if any kept reappearing, checked out his reflection in store windows to see if he was being...
...Since writing Shadow Over Shangri-La, has your perception of the social and political conditions in Nepal changed...
...Harvard she also married Anthony Willett, co-author of Shadow over Shangri-La, her recently published memoir, whom she had first met in Nepal while he was doing fieldwork as a specialist in international rural development. A graduate of Cambridge University, at her encouragement Willett enrolled in Harvard's M.P.A. program while she was attending the Kennedy School. In 1988-89, they lived together as resident tutors in Currier House...
Shadow Over Shangri-La is partly an autobiography, in that Pokhrel describes her experiences in Nepal, as well as her life after moving to the United States. It is also a call for a different kind of government in Nepal, not a slavish imitation of Western-style regimes but a balanced fusion of old and new, monarchy and democracy, Western innovations and Hindu traditions. But it is also, and fundamentally, a universal story of suffering and perseverance, written for--and dedicated to--all victims of human rights abuse...
There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...