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...Today, Sandhya sits batting away mosquitoes in a sparse wood cabin, part of a sprawling Maoist cantonment in the southern district of Chitwan. She believes victory is at hand. A peace process triggered by mass protests in April 2006 against the autocratic rule of Nepal's King Gyanendra brought the Maoists into the political mainstream, paving the way for the extraordinary transformation of a country ruled for two and a half centuries by Hindu kings into a secular republic. Both the Royal Nepalese Army and the Maoist guerrillas - the civil war's bitter foes - returned to their barracks and camps...
...line of over 450 students from the Middlesex School—snaking from the very back of Sever Hall to the front steps of Memorial Church—marched across Harvard Yard yesterday in commemoration of the birth of civil rights leader Martin Luther King...
Scheibe said he arranged for all student and faculty members to join affiliates of the Harvard community at yesterday evening’s, university-wide commemoration of King...
...We’ve tried to do a good job with Martin Luther King Day a number of times by having no classes and our own services,” he said. “But today, we’re trying to take advantage of the local academic community...
...breathtaking view from Karanganyar's Astana Giribangun mausoleum, the final resting place of former President Suharto, was fit for a king - and the reception of Indonesia's longest-serving leader no less royal. Tens of thousands of Javanese came out to pay their last respects today in this small town in central Java, lining the steep hills overlooking the spectacular rice fields that feed this nation of more than 230 million people. Beneath hundreds of banners that read HAVE A SAFE TRIP FROM THE PEOPLE OF SOLO, old ladies walked for miles under the sweltering midday sun just to catch...