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...brother Sanjay would have favored a big celebration, but Rajiv Gandhi, 36, is more modest. The hurrahs were subdued last week after the eldest son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi-and the grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru-won a landslide by-election victory and captured the parliamentary seat vacated as a result of Sanjay's death last June. Wearing the white homespun kurta-pajama favored by Indian politicians, Rajiv met simply with a few friends and reporters at his mother's house, where he lives...
...doubted that the newest Gandhi to enter politics would win, even though he was less than scintillating on the hustings. Mother's help in the campaign was enough. Still, Rajiv insisted that nepotism would not take him to the top-at least not instantly. "There is no question of my accepting any party post or ministerial office right now," he said. "I am only one month old in politics...
...playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
...tried to appease a person who knows war only." An optimist offers proof that homo sapiens is on the ascent: "After all, we were once apes and now we're human. It's a long distance between a gorilla and Mahatma Gandhi." If ridicule is used to illuminate the cast imperfect, Singer is not afraid to turn it on himself...
More than 100 likenesses-captured mostly by unheralded studio photographers-range from the mid-19th century to the present, from Sun Yat-sen to Sibelius, from Gandhi to Garbo. They command attention for their uniqueness (Matisse on a horse), their rarity (a signed James Joyce) or their campy looniness (a bare-bottomed Mata Hari). All come from the collection...