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Fienning raised over $900 from November 2006 to January of this year for the Harvard College Marathon Challenge, a group of Harvard community members that raises money for Boston-area youth in conjunction with PBHA and Project HEALTH...
Fienning raised over $900 from November 2006 to Jaunuary of this year for the Harvard College Marathon Challenge, a group of Harvard community members that raises money for Boston-area youth in conjunction with PBHA and Project HEALTH...
...Known as “the thumb in the eye of Tibet” for its northward-bulging border, the kingdom of Upper Mustang once lay along the major salt trade route from Tibet to India. It is part of the Annapurna Conservation Area, a small piece of Nepal that borders China and Tibet. The king’s title is the rather grandiose and redundant "King Mustangi Raja" followed by his name, Jigmi Palbar Bista. Although he holds less power since the constitutional monarchy began in 1951 (the central government controls most matters), he still wields a fair amount...
...When ushered in to meet the old king of Mustang in his castle of 108 mud rooms, I asked him in my best Nepali how he thought the road would change the area. He replied it would be good economically, but detrimental culturally and environmentally; and his eyes grew melancholy...
...cannot guess how the road will transform the Loba’s lives in infinite positive and negative ways. I am frightened that the road may destroy what makes the area incomparable to any other. But I am selfishly happy to have seen the windswept canyons, the brilliant red Buddhist temples, the fields of impossible green in the midst of barren browns, and the beautiful, friendly faces of the Loba before a road transforms them into a mere glimpse captured through the window of a car along a highway...