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Sexier than Oh! Calcutta! and more emotional than A Chorus Line, each of which claims to be Broadway's longest-running show ever -- plus richer in social history and sheer fun -- Ain't Misbehavin' deserves a place alongside them into eternity...
...bandh, or strike, was led by eight opposition parties, whose demands included Gandhi's resignation and the calling of national elections well in advance of the mandatory deadline of December 1989. In Bombay, India's main commercial center, most state and municipal employees stayed away from work; in Calcutta, where the Marxist-led Left Front is in control, store owners who dared to open their shops risked having them ransacked by militants. In all, 50,000 people were arrested, and at least ten died in street violence...
...Cambridge License Commission denied liquor licenses to two Indian restaurants, Gandhi and Old Calcutta, and prevented Warburton's from moving into the square because a current city moratorium has set a limit on the number of liquor licenses and fast-food restaruants in the area...
Under ordinary circumstances, a missing check might attract little notice. But the aggrieved party was Mother Teresa, the gentle Nobel Peace laureate, and the money involved was a donation to support her work with children in Calcutta's slums. Indian police soon homed in on the mail-sorting office at Calcutta Airport. There they found a ring systematically filching check- stuffed envelopes addressed to the nun, and sending them to accomplices in Hong Kong and Singapore to be cashed or stashed in bank accounts...
...national level, Congress still controls 75% of the seats in Parliament, but the losses have spotlighted serious declines in the party's popularity. Gandhi has political troubles on other fronts, including a feud with India's President, Giani Zail Singh. Capturing a widespread mood in the country, the Calcutta Telegraph declared last week, "The growing questions about Mr. Gandhi's abilities are taking their toll...