Word: gandhis
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...pulled back, Ramallah has seen a burst of creativity. In July, a $5 million Palace of Culture, funded by the U.N. and Japan, opened with performances by local poets and musicians. Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim brought his orchestra to the town in August. Ben Kingsley screened a version of Gandhi dubbed in Arabic to promote nonviolent resistance. The town's cinema - the only one in the West Bank - reopened, and musicians founded a school to teach classical Arabic music in Ramallah's Old City. Even as the town's art scene revives, artists run into expectations that they'll play...
Then, explains Abhay, 55, priorities for the developing world were decreed in abstract by the medical establishment. "For example, everyone said population control was the No. 1 priority and family planning the No. 1 solution," he says. That approach ran counter to principles Abhay learned growing up in Mohandas Gandhi's ashram at nearby Sevagram (literally, Service Village), which favored community and consensus over hierarchy and imposition...
...Jobs, say, ran a hedge fund or an army platoon, that talk would not sound so blunt. But because he looks and acts like such a cool guy--this is the guy who put Lennon and Gandhi on thousands of billboards-- the words are bracing, to say the least. And yet that approach produces shiny, innovative things like the new iPod. Even though it costs the same ($299) as its immediate predecessor, which Apple introduced only 15 months ago, the new iPod has more memory (30 GB as opposed to 20 GB), and it's thinner (0.43 in., as opposed...
...them: Sarkar ("boss" in Hindi), a stylish interpretation of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, is his 152nd movie. But Bachchan also had a profound connection to his public. In the 1970s and 1980s, as India stagnated under an autocratic government and the suspension of civil liberties during Indira Gandhi's 1975-1977 Emergency, Bachchan played a series of angry young men who dared to take on a venal, feudal establishment. To millions of cinemagoers catching a brief respite from their hardscrabble lives, he was the Indian rebel with a cause...
...terrorists, and even without that official sanction, their record in 22 years of civil war with the Sinhalese of southern Sri Lanka speaks for itself. They've assassinated the heads of several branches of the Sri Lankan armed forces, a president, and a former prime minister of India (Rajiv Gandhi); they've blown up half the national airline and held off two national armies (Sri Lanka and India); They are credited, if that's the correct term, with raising suicide bombing to an art form, with explosives strapped to the body, and cars and boats in ever more sophisticated fashion...