Word: gandhis
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...received its final O.K., Enron gave $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee.) And when Enron was trying to sell its interest in the Indian project, the New York Daily News reported, Vice President Dick Cheney raised the issue in a meeting last June with Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi. The White House says he was acting not at Enron's behest but on the need to protect $640 million in federal money...
...MOHANDAS GANDHI...
...Curiously, it was in a jail that the year's end found the little half-naked brown man whose 1930 mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all." Thus TIME described Mohandas Gandhi, in prison for mobilizing Indians against the British raj. A believer in "passive resistance" who had a steely will, a monklike ascetic who was a London-trained lawyer and a sophisticated politician, Gandhi gave Indians a proud identity and sense of nationhood. Many venerated him as a mahatma (great soul). His protests in 1930 presaged the moment in 1947 when Britain would grant India independence...
Preacher, activist, follower of Gandhi's principles of nonviolent resistance, King had emerged as the champion of American blacks' crusade for civil rights. A veteran of the Montgomery, Ala., bus protests of the 1950s and the Southern sit-ins of the '60s, King came to the fore in the 1963 Birmingham, Ala., demonstrations for desegregation. In the same year he led 200,000 in the March on Washington and gave the galvanizing "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. "He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people," said his colleague the Rev. Ralph Abernathy. King...
...person who, in the words of TIME founder Henry Luce, "most affected our lives, for good or ill this year." We will run the best entries in the POY issue of the magazine. Also online, view every POY cover, including the 1930 edition, featuring Man of the Year Mohandas Gandhi, and see photo galleries of the winners and near winners. You can also register to receive an e-mail alert when the Person of the Year is announced. At time.com/poy2001...