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...rebels' increasing savagery that has struck terror across the Himalayan kingdom. One 32-year-old subsistence farmer from western Nepal was singled out for a random nighttime attack three months ago. "We heard a group of women chanting in the dark 'Long Live the Maoist Party of Nepal,'" says the man in a hospital in Kathmandu. "They rushed in. They were all dressed in white, all with short hair, the youngest about 15 and the oldest no more than 22. They took me out on the porch where they bound my hands behind my back and tied my legs together...
...travelers up the vertiginous road to Santikhiri?particularly from December until February when the cherry trees dot the slopes with their pink exuberance?but it wasn't always thus. As late as the mid-1970s, Doi Mae Salong was strictly off-limits to outsiders. Tuan and his men had struck an agreement with the Thai government that their presence would be tolerated, provided they helped fight the Thai communist insurgents in the region. The fiercest battle began in 1970 and lasted five years. Almost 1,000 kmt soldiers perished before they finally routed the guerrillas. For their efforts, they were...
...Yorker Levi Browde, a 29-year-old software engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, struck first. "I wanted people in China to see that Falun Gong is embraced around the world," he says. So he and a friend took a taxi to Tiananmen Square on Feb. 11, unfurled a banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua...
Adversity struck hard when Coleman was forced to sit out all of last year for academic reasons. But someone probably forgot to tell Coleman how hard it would be to come back this year, how challenging it might be to be accepted by his teammates again...
With 2:37 left in regulation, the Crimson held at 62-50 lead that seemed to ensure victory. But Cornell struck back with a fury, forcing overtime with a 12-0 run that almost cost Harvard the game...