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...vibrancy and magic, and of a uniquely expressive stick technique. But at the Edinburgh rehearsal, it's clear that sheer persistence and patience are also at work. It has been 20 minutes and Dudamel is still not happy with his violins. In more romantic Russian pieces, the strings can act as a swaying hammock between the spikes of the percussion and the brass. But in Shostakovich, they must be part of a shrill, totalitarian attack on the senses. The energy isn't there - after a delayed charter flight from Caracas, everyone is on three hours' sleep. Worse, these are teenagers...
Nuclear experts say the deal was more than India could have hoped for. But now India's left-wing parties want it scrapped. Their main objection: the Hyde Act, a U.S. law that is the foundation for the deal, and requires an annual White House certification that India's foreign policy aligns with that of the U.S. The leftists are still angry that the U.S. pressured India into voting against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting last year. In the name of sovereignty, they want to end talks with the IAEA and the Nuclear Suppliers Group that...
...India's left-wing parties don't agree. Long suspicious of American intentions, they say the deal - based on U.S. legislation known as the Hyde Act of 2006, which includes a nonbinding proviso that India's foreign policy be aligned with that of the U.S. - compromises India's sovereignty. Now, that opposition has brought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government to the brink of collapse. With 59 seats in India's 552-member lower house of Parliament, the leftists, including the powerful Communist Party of India (Marxist), have been a significant outside partner in the ruling Congress Party-led coalition...
...spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, sticks, dice, coffee grounds, crystal gazing or other such reading, or through mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, or by any such similar thing or act...
...Presiding over the ceremony is Gandhi's grandson, the current Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi. And following the presentation, in an act of commemoration, he set off in a convoy to Beliaghata, a poor Muslim locality in the outskirts of the city. This was where his grandfather, at the height of tensions in 1947, had moved into accommodations far more humble than the Viceroy's Palace. Hindu refugees fleeing death and persecution in East Bengal (soon to be made into East Pakistan and later independent Bangladesh) besieged Muslim areas like Beliaghata seeking revenge for their sufferings. Gandhi sought to deter further killings...