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Touted as the extraordinary tale of a Puritan American woman who, after following her husband to India, falls in love with a Hindu raja, The Holder of the World surely will be remembered as Bharati Mukherjee's finest rendering of a woman's story yet. There is no question that...
In a reversal of Bush Administration policy, Clinton met with Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born British writer who is under a death threat from Iran because of his book The Satanic Verses. To minimize any undue provocation of Iran, no pictures of the encounter were taken. Nevertheless, after the meeting...
THERE IT WAS, A CHANCE ENcounter and perfect sound bite. Robert Tercek, then an MTV Asia promotions executive, was in Bombay taping a commercial when he felt a tug at his sleeve. Standing there was an Indian youth who insisted that he had to tell the world "what MTV has...
Bill Clinton, whose political baptism was a 1963 handshake with Kennedy, has so far failed to revive Camelot precisely because he has been unable to inspire Americans in the way that JFK did. He has invoked the Kennedy legacy through policy proposals (the National Service Act--a domestic Peace Corps...
By the time Ross Perot got around to making his ominous threat last Tuesday night, many viewers may already have tuned out. Al Gore had seemingly won the NAFTA debate on points, and there was a temptation to begin writing the Texan's political obituary for the next day's...