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Sikh separatists claimed responsibility today for a car bomb that killed 16 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. But New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that that Punjabi Sikhs are so disgusted by the violence that the incident promises to splinter the minority drive for independence. "The last few years have witnessed a relative peace here and some remarkable agricultural prosperity, and already there's a palpable resentment that the violence could come back as a result of this." Before Singh, Thompson says, Hindus were commonly hauled out of public buses...
...powerful car bomb killed 11 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that the blast destroyed three vehicles, broke windows in nearby buildings, and ripped Singh and his guards' bodies. The murders are ironic: "Singh and his police chief were widely credited with ending years of violence in Punjab. That success was shared by the man who engineered Singh's election, India's Prime Minister Rao. Now, Rao's anti-terrorism accomplishment seems to have been blown apart also." Though no group has claimed responsibility...
...eponymous hero reminds us of our better selves. But it also has the enchantment of an extended magical illusion--91 minutes of wondering how they did it. Mostly, it would seem, with a lot of patience. Producer and co-writer George Miller (of the Mad Max films) bought Dick King-Smith's children's story, on which the movie is based, nearly a decade ago. Co-writer and director Chris Noonan worked six years to bring it to the screen. The $25 million production seamlessly blends computer-graphic images (mostly of the creatures talking), animatronic doubles (for the facial expressions...
...this smoke-free piety went out in January with the arrival of the new Republican majority. Some of the top men in the House leadership are avid tobacco users. House majority leader Dick Armey and Republican Conference chairman John Boehner puff cigarettes, and House majority whip Tom DeLay often sports a wad of tobacco inside his lower lip. In the 104th Congress, smoking defines the angry-white-male revolution. It is the congressional equivalent of Ronald Reagan reaching for the Clint Eastwood "make-my-day" mythology. They're not politicians; they're Marlboro...
...Robert Torricelli, a feisty, partisan Democrat, is the strongest Democratic contender likely to run for Bradley's seat. Among the elephants, it's Rep. Dick Zimmer, a three-term fiscal conservative/pro-choicer...