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...political firebrand, an idealistic, secular nationalist who could be blunt to a fault. Indira Gandhi jailed him, along with many other of her outspoken political opponents, during a tumultuous period in the mid-1970s. Shekhar became Prime Minister in 1990, but holding only a slim majority in a fractious coalition, he served just seven months before resigning amid charges that his government was spying on political rival Rajiv Gandhi. Shekhar died...
...musical Call Me Madam and the subject of a 1949 cover story in this magazine. Bill Clinton posted Pamela Harriman as his ambassador to France. It was the least the President could do for a woman who used her talent for entertaining, and her husband's money, to bring fractious Democrats together in the 1980s, eventually uniting them behind the young Governor of Arkansas...
...years in Cambridge, a budget spat with a local newspaper has turned 2007 into one of his most fractious...
...Russia's relations with Europe have become increasingly fractious as it flexes its new clout owing to rising prices for its vast stores of natural resources. It now supplies around a quarter of Europe's natural gas and a rising proportion of its oil. Human rights, however, are in shorter supply. Earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel chided Putin for restrictions on opposition rallies during an E.U.-Russia summit. Putin's response: "What is pure democracy? It is a question of ... whether you want to see the glass half-full or half-empty." While Litvinenko's murder remains unsolved...
...Northwest Frontier Province-the same ground where allied troops have spent the past five years searching fruitlessly for bin Laden, and where the remnants of Afghanistan's Taliban fled to lick their wounds and recover their strength. The region was then, as it is today, a powder keg of fractious tribes and fundamentalist firebrands, and Britain's experience with trying to capture Khan mirrors the frustrating hunt for bin Laden...