Word: gandhi
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...Gandhi and Humanism. Mark Lindley,assistant humanist chaplain, United Ministry.Science Center D, 1 p.m.1 May Monday
DIED. MORARJI DESAI, 99, ascetic former Prime Minister of India who led the country's first non-Congress Party government from 1977 to 1979; in Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his coalition in power. He credited his long life to celibacy (begun at age 32 after his fifth child was born) and a spartan diet of fruit, milk, juice and, from time to time, his own urine...
Among the most prominent of these are theErasmus Prize (1986), the Simon Bolivar Prize(1990) and the Indira Gandhi Prize...
What makes the province dilemma unique is Quebec has fallen victim a shrewd political entrepreneur who sees only the glory ahead for himself the founder and first president of a nation a modern George Washington, a Gandhi, a Mandela...
...columnist Frank Rich has compared him to Bill Clinton. But Forrest's simple optimism and his success as an entrepreneur and a reviver of American confidence could make him an emblem of '80s conservatism: not only Reaganomics but what Republicans might call Reaganethics. He's E.T. with a little Gandhi thrown in. He's Candide making the best of the worst of all possible worlds. And in his influence on events, from the capture of the Watergate burglars to John Lennon's composition of the song Imagine, he seems almost omnipotent. All-innocent and all-powerful, the ideal guru...