The Girl From Kathmandu
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* Hinduism is Nepal’s dominant faith, but Buddhism also has a strong following, as the Buddha was Nepalese. In many families, the two traditions, which share common roots, are blended together, and Hindu and Buddhist priests practice side by side in temples across the country.
* More than 7 percent of the population of Nepal is of Magar ethnicity, and Thapa is among the biggest subsets.
* Malcontents among the most committed former Baathists would form a significant part of the insurgency, up to and including the so-called Islamic State.
* The official designations came in June 2005 but were based on conduct by these governments that occurred in 2004.
* Jeet’s mother told me she was desperate to keep Kritika by her side and was heartbroken at the idea of her absence, but said she never asked Kamala to leave the child behind. “The pain of separation from your child always kills you, and I didn’t have the strength to do the same to Kamala,” she said.
* It wasn’t renamed Kellogg Brown and Root until 1998.
* Apart from George Brown’s deplorable sentiments, Caro himself would come to hold a view of Johnson not too terribly dissimilar to Brown’s, telling an interviewer in 2012 that Johnson “really had compassion, he really wanted to help. But whenever ambition collided with compassion, it was the ambition that won.”
* It was originally called the Marshall Ford Dam.
* The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately cut it to $500 million.
* All three members of the panel agreed that at the time when Jeet and the other men were recruited, moved across the globe, and murdered in 2004, it simply had not been illegal under the antitrafficking law alone for Americans to engage in trafficking outside the United States. The panel further said that changes to the trafficking law by Congress in 2008 were not clearly put forward as “clarifications,” and therefore represented a new law altogether, meaning that KBR could not be held accountable retroactively without invoking another law, like the Alien Tort Statute.