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...casinos came to town 20 years ago. Today, Bryant's neighborhood is the last stable, middle-class, mostly black area in all of boom-or-bust Atlantic City. Bryant says she's not against new casinos, she's against uprooting good neighborhoods so outsiders can pretend they're in Shangri-La. "Steve Wynn must have something good on these people. The state is bickering about having to pay $200 million for public education by an order of the Supreme Court, but they'll spend $300 million to build a private driveway for a billionaire...
...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...
...each one was followed by a payment to one of his accounts. After the meeting with Russians that agents say they observed in Singapore, for instance, Nicholson paid $8,300 cash into his American Express account, purchased two gold commemorative coins and paid his $1,679.59 bill at the Shangri-La Hotel in cash...
...Since writing Shadow Over Shangri-La, has your perception of the social and political conditions in Nepal changed...
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...