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...were jammed across the country, the capital ran short of diesel and gas, and the price of vegetables?most of which were left to rot in fields?soared to 30 times the normal level. Some 300 tourists nationwide were left stranded with little option but to leave Nepal on foot. They included 200 Indians, who trudged south over the border to safety. Elsewhere, Maoists stoned the vehicle of a French couple attempting to return to Kathmandu from western Nepal, and the Nepalese army had to escort nine British travelers driving back from Chitwan game park. While embassies hurriedly revised travel...
...before allowing himself to know the decision that would change his life. "I've always tried to suppress those things," Howard says. "Having Tourette's syndrome coming up, I thought: They've always got that. If I'm the best guy in the world, if I never put a foot wrong, and they feel like going at me, they can always say: Yeah, but he's got TS. So I didn't want to put myself out there too much. I didn't want it to be a focal point." Little did he know - nothing could be more appealing than...
...three-month suspended jail sentence to a man who tried to run over a man he mistook for Osama bin Laden. Convinced he had spotted the al-Qaeda leader, the motorist skipped a red light and drove into a pedestrian zone in pursuit. His victim, who was on foot, escaped harm when the car crashed into some steps. The driver later claimed to be delirious as a result of the threat of global terror...
...just as easy to make fun of Harvard for some of its ‘cheesy’ rituals, such as rubbing John Harvard’s foot for good luck,” he said. “This in particular is such a peculiar ritual, and one that strikes me as a tourist practice that was somewhat co-opted by the Harvard community...
...best traditions such as rubbing a statue’s foot for good luck or a naked run around the yard on a cold midnight in January certainly were not the ideas of a ‘committee,’” she wrote...