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...fight on economic, rational issues." The party, says Mahajan, is projecting Vajpayee as the only leader who can transform India into a prosperous nation. To make sure voters understand that there is no alternative to Vajpayee, BJP's top strategists also plan to hammer hard at Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born head of the opposition Congress Party, portraying her as a political outsider without the gravitas to rule India. "Atal vs. Sonia will be our first point," says Mahajan...
...DIED. Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Jewish former law student who fled Mussolini's regime in 1938, he was best known for his influential theories on the way people save money. Previously it was widely assumed that only the rich saved; he proposed that people at all income levels save money and spend...
Carla Cico, 41, the Italian-born CEO of Brasil Telecom (BT), ran in her first New York City Marathon in November. So did seven other BT employees--products of Cico's new company-wide fitness program. "It promotes discipline, preparation, focus, team culture," Cico explains. "We want to avoid the mind-set of the '90s, when so many telecoms went only for short-term results...
...Gujarat are all under attack. The persecutors? Terrorists, criminals, all Pakistanis (and President Pervez Musharraf in particular, whom Modi declares to be his true electoral opponent), Osama bin Laden, intellectuals, the media, "pseudo secularists," communists and cow killers. He reserves particular venom for Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of assassinated Premier Rajiv Gandhi. Her entire party sees the world through "Italian glasses," he declares to loud laughs. But it's an odd slight for a man who himself looks out from behind a pair of frameless Bulgaris from Milan. As the bus bounces over potholes into Gujarat...
...ordinary, visible light. But stars and galaxies shine with all sorts of other radiation as well. For their work in probing these otherwise invisible signals from space Raymond Davis, 87 of the University of Pennsylvania; Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, of the University of Tokyo; and the Italian-born U.S. citizen Riccardo Giacconi, 71, of Associated Universities Inc. in Washington, D.C, each got a share of the Nobel prize in Physics announced in Stockholm Tuesday...