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...post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place [as next in line for the prime ministership]. 'Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed,' said a Western diplomat...
...good time for his re-election campaign, the GNP was growing a robust 6.8%, while inflation had dropped to 4.3%. And from then on, despite the spectacular but brief stock-market crash in 1987, the boom kept right on booming. Those gains, however, were unequally distributed. Reagan liked to say that the government provided a "safety net" for the "truly needy," but it was during these years that, for the first time since the Depression, there appeared those huddled figures who became known as "the homeless...
Bahadu’s chief event as HoCo co-chair was this year’s banner Spring Formal, which he says sported nearly double the number of guests in previous years, prompting guests at Eliot House’s famed Fete to crash their neighboring House’s party. In order to pique interest in the occasion, Bahadu had 100 handles of liquor delivered and wheeled through the courtyard during the goat roast, which took place the week before the formal...
Learning to navigate Beijing's frenzied roads, new drivers are often advised that if they don't want to crash, they shouldn't use their rearview mirror. If everyone else is watching the road ahead, the logic goes, then not only is it pointless to focus on what's behind you, it's also dangerous. In the 15 years since their bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, China's leaders have worked hard to ensure that their people think about politics in much the same way as Beijingers drive. Memories of the massacre, which Beijing euphemistically refers...
...cracking and widespread leaks that preceded the cave-in. Cracking elsewhere in the departure structure was heard after the collapse, forcing administrators to close the entire building. Even in the best of cases, says CDG director René Brun, 2E will remained closed for "months, even a year." The crash has even further-reaching business ripples. For years, ADP has sold consulting, engineering, and management services to airports abroad that want to improve or extend their infrastructure. Its acclaimed work in new airport construction in Asia, the Middle East and South America made ADP a front runner for similar contracts...