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When Durga Pokhrel was born in a small mountain village in Nepal, astrologers foretold that if she were born female, she would be as strong as a son. Appropriately named after the Hindu goddess of power, Durga went on to pursue a turbulent career as teacher, journalist and democratic and human rights activist in Nepal, during which her strength and constancy were severely tested. Contrary to the wishes of her conservative Hindu family, she became a scholar and university lecturer, but was blacklisted by the government for her political activities and eventually expelled from the university where she taught...
...Vanga," a prophet venerated by politicians and peasants; in Rupite, Bulgaria. By her account, Vanga was hurled more than a mile by a storm at age 12--which left her blind but may have opened up worlds hidden and future. She dreamed in 1941 of an "ancient horseman" who foretold the Nazi march into the Balkans...
...almost everything right. As he foretold, the public hated the Republican blackmail strategy. But even more ominous, he saw that his coalition was beginning to splinter. On Wednesday morning he had taken a secret ballot of his members on whether to reopen the government. By 111 to 54 they had voted no. But those 54 votes told Gingrich that he was losing control of the House and would have to give up his best weapon in the budget war. And so, with eyes downcast and voice resolute, he recalled his own childhood as an Army brat, remembering what...
...TWELVE DREAMS James Lapine's sly, skewed play draws its inspiration from a case study of Carl Jung's in which a young girl's dreams apparently foretold her death. In a Lincoln Center revival, the haunting logic of dreams, fusing the seemingly arbitrary and the seemingly inevitable, wove an ever tightening web of enchantment...
...elections were called because the hard-pressed government wanted to create the appearance of legitimacy at home and abroad for Zeroual, 54, the head of state appointed by the army in January 1994. Zeroual's race against three other presidential candidates was the chronicle of a victory foretold. But his victory left the North African country of 30 million as uncertain of its future as at any other time since its ill-fated first attempt to hold multiparty voting four years ago. Then, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.) won the first round of legislative elections, which the army aborted...