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...blue-uniformed Nepali police has driven up. Chaulagain uses a stick, and pushes one of the burning tires right up to where the cops are and lets it roll on to the ground. His friends cheer: so does the crowd behind them, which is at least a couple of thousand strong. "We've not been protesting for 17 days for a prime minister," Chaulagain says. "We've been protesting for democracy. Until we get democracy, we'll be out here." The police at first watch without a reaction; then, an hour later, they charge at Chaulagain and his fellow protestors...
...definitely meet up” come September. Within a month or so, I had amassed a Harvard friends list in the hundreds. Then by some fluke, I found myself in a string of Facebook message conversations with one upperclassman. He warned me against having a thousand Facebook friends before even arriving at college and directed me to the Facebook group “Holy Shit, the Class of 2009 Should Perform a David Koresh-style Mass Suicide.” These upperclassmen were right, of course. Why did I need to have 300 cyber friends whom...
However, in “The Ruling Caste,” David Gilmour, constructs a portrait of India that is far different from those found in other works. As opposed to focusing on the lives of the Indians, Gilmour looks to the few thousand British civil servants who, for about a century, were in charge of running a country of over 300 million people...
...Francisco because of Boston’s weak ground, not because of subterranean tectonic activity. Eva E. Zanzerkia ’97, an associate program director in the National Science Foundation’s division of earth sciences, found in research done at Harvard that Boston’s thousand acres of man-made fill and river basins actually amplify seismic waves. According to Zanzerkia’s research, earthquake shocks that enter this softer ground become trapped and echo around the area rather than slowing to a stop as in hard bedrock. As a result, the force...
...That much, I think, is a personal choice, but it’s one we should know that we’re making. We’re just coming to terms with the idea of the Internet as a megaphone, taking the things we say and making them ten thousand times louder, capable of being heard around the world. A poorly worded letter to the editor or a heat-of-the-moment, too-ambitious argument on a mailing list can shut the door on a nascent political career. That it’s a megaphone in time as well...