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...happy with Nehru. A Hindu-nationalist leader once accused him of being "English by education, Muslim by culture and Hindu by accident." The son of one of colonial India's most famous lawyers, the young Jawaharlal had British tutors and was educated at two of England's most élite establishments, Harrow and Cambridge. Gandhi's example transformed a mediocre Anglophile lawyer into a nationalist hero, but the two men's visions were hardly alike: Gandhi believed India's future lay in self-sufficient villages, but Nehru, influenced by Soviet socialism, wanted to urbanize and industrialize, filling India with steel...
...influential rapper Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in his GMC Suburban, and Sean “Puffy” Combs stood atop the bloated corpse to propagate his own mediocre hip-hop lite to the world. And in the past year, The Who have completed one of their most successful tours ever after billing it a “tribute” to recently deceased bassist John Entwistle...
French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin all but declared war on the Parisian élite in an October interview with TIME, chastising French intellectuals for "not being open-minded enough about the world." It's a problem previous governments have grappled with, but last week Raffarin's government launched a new assault on the ruling class's high temple: the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the fiercely competitive, 58-year-old school that breeds France's best and brightest. As of 2005, the school will close its Paris campus for everything but continuing education and concentrate its activities at its Strasbourg...
...shooting and grenade attack by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The latter assault came on the heels of an agreement by leaders of the two main Palestinian Muslim militant groups, meeting in Syria, to coordinate their attacks. FARC Takes a Hit COLOMBIA The second-ranking leader of an élite unit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was killed in a gun battle that military officials called a major blow to the group. Edgar Gustavo Navarro is said to have been behind the capture of three Americans - and the killing of a fourth - after their plane was shot...
...table and beer funnel, the Cabot suite librarians have equipped their room with a “library lounge,” which is a second large common room wall-papered with tin foil and blue and red construction paper accents. With dimmed lighting and accessories like incense, a Lite-Brite and old-school Super Mario Brothers played to the sounds of classical symphonies, the room is decidedly trippy. “We want people to be able to do whatever they want to do in here, whatever their inspiration leads them to,” explains Matt...