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...swayed his long frame to the songs, clapped along with "Hey Jude" and, when a huge bed sheet whooshed up from the stage to eventually cover most of the 2,000 spectators, lifted his arms with an eager reverence to touch the fabric, as if it were a gigantic Shroud of Turin...
...under tremendous financial strain: he makes his living as a professional mortician but receives no payment for burying unclaimed bodies, which he sees as a religious duty. He estimates that each body he buries costs him $20, including the price of the body bag, the coarse white cotton shroud, gravediggers' fees, transportation costs and the grave itself. Recently, he's taken to burying two bodies in each grave...
...civilian officials are pulling back. At the various base camps, soldiers can wait in line at the PX for two hours just to buy razor blades and batteries. Wild dogs roam the perimeter of the camps, keeping the rats at bay. And the sandstorms are like a shroud that stings; taking a shower is a waste of time since you're filthy again in five minutes...
...yesterday," said Suwas Bhetwal, a 24-year-old sociology student. "We don't think he wants to give up power at all. We don't want a constitutional King or a ceremonial king. We want him out of Nepal. We want a republic." Some protesters carried a stuffed white shroud, marked with red drops. "That's the King's body!" shouted one of them. "His corpse...
...incensed by the tone of the King's speech yesterday, which they called arrogant. "We don't want a constitutional king or a ceremonial king. We want him to leave the country; we want a republic," said Suwas Bhetwal, 24. Ahead of him, protestors were carrying a stuffed white shroud sprinkled with red drops. "That's the king's body," one of them shouted. "His dead body...