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...Congress Party and its leader, Sonia Gandhi, scored a stunning upset, shutting the mouths of skeptics. But I would not call this a dynastic victory. If you brush back the cobwebs of history, you will see that Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
Moving in only two months after Real Taco failed in December, Felipe’s co-owner Tom Brush said business at the taqueria was so strong that it was often hard to close...
Chase’s first brush with gourmet cooking came at age 13, when she served as cook at the Nantucket home of her aunt and uncle. For several months, she furnished the family with three meals a day. She also catered their weekly dinner parties using ingredients that had been grown locally...
...already fiery rep. Damien Hirst At first thought to have perished, Hirst's 7-m bronze statue Charity (2003) was one of only two items to survive the blaze. Hirst's oeuvre already fetches top prices - a 1992 piece went for $1 million in May - but Charity's brush with death is bound to increase both its cash value and cultural cachet...
...Today a brush-fire challenge to Bush's stem-cell policy is spreading across the U.S., fueled by the frustration of such families as Zucker's who have allied themselves with patient activists for other diseases, major universities, several state legislatures and members of Congress. Last month 206 U.S. Representatives wrote to the President, calling on him to fund stem-cell research on spare embryos from a pool of some 400,000 stored in the freezers of in vitro fertilization clinics. These embryos, only a few days old and smaller than the head of a pin, will probably be discarded...