Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student from the mountains who takes a room with her; and Ishvar and Om are two village tailors, uncle and nephew, who long to pull themselves up from their Untouchable status. All four, with their habits of impatience and loss, hopefulness and resignation, find their lives intertwined when Indira Gandhi announces her State of Emergency--her absolute rule...
Passive aggression has its triumphs. Sometimes it is the only civilized way to get things done: it was a passive aggressive's masterstroke--shrewd disruption elevated to the moral prestige of "passive resistance"--that Gandhi used to drive the British out of India...
...fact that we are not alone. So many people are Doomophiles that some firms have banned it from their networks. At AT&T's Bell Labs, computer jocks quickly mastered all the levels, then created their own special challenges. If a Bell guy says, "Do Level 12, Mahatma Gandhi--style," he wants you to race through the level barehanded, without harming any monsters...
...nation has produced surprisingly few chess geniuses. Anand, raised in Madras, became India's first grand master when he was only 17. Still boyish-looking at 25, Vishy--as he is familiarly known--is one of India's most famous sporting heroes. Yet he carries himself with an almost Gandhi-like humility. According to S. Lourduraj, one of his high school math teachers, "He was gentle with his classmates and respectful to his teachers. That's why God has blessed him so much." A nondrinker and strict vegetarian, the single Anand invariably travels with his parents. Once asked the secret...
...government doesn't use them, they'll just intrude into sensitive areas even more. But if the government does take advantage of hackers' expertise, it will save on operating costs, training expenses and even computer budgets. The 21st century definitely will see the Rise of the Hackers. SHAHEEN GANDHI Bridgewater, New Jersey AOL: Sha5...