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...Pant had a word for what he felt, and in 2000 he moved to Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, to find other gay people and some sense of belonging. What he discovered horrified him. After dark, a small underground subculture of gay men and women would meet each other in a few of the city's parks and ancient courtyards, gatherings that took place under a constant threat of violence by the police. A law against "unnatural sexual conduct" was often used as a pretext for harassment, he says. "It was such an unseen, unspoken tragedy that was going on every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Felipe’s: 1. Harvard Square’s most popular late-night answer to Mexican cuisine. 2. The Spanish word for “grease...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Salient: 1. Ultraconservative fortnightly (their word!) publication, descended ideologically from the people who prosecuted Galileo...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Whole Foods •stockholders of can't be happy with the CEO of, because who wants to find their company in the same sentence with the word "boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

...irony of condensing a million-word epic into a series of tweets - of which Sreedharan has so far posted 92 - is not lost on him. Nor is the challenge. "You want to write tight, but you don't want to write so tight that the meaning gets lost for people who're not familiar with the story," he says. "What I'm trying to do is to make sure there is enough drama in every twepisode, so to speak. There's a cliffhanger, wherever possible." (Read TIME's cover story, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tweeting the World's Longest Poem | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

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