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...ever said the process would be a snap. The heart of the argument is as old as these two nations: Who should own Kashmir: India or Pakistan? During the 1947 partition, Kashmir was left unresolved. But its Hindu maharajah hurriedly ceded his kingdom to India when the new nation of Pakistan sent troops to occupy it. They were pushed back by India roughly to the point now known as the Line of Control, splitting the territory unevenly?with about two-thirds going to India and the remainder to Pakistan...
...Clinton was a dangerous man, if only because his personality and proclivities made him better suited to be a sultan or maharajah then an American president. This may explain why he always looked happiest on his grand tours--in Africa, for instance, or lately in Vietnam--where the adulation of the masses washed over him, unmediated by the stumbling blocks of the two-party system and the constitutional order...
...Dean Lewis Factor. While covering the field hockey game, I happened to see a solitary figure scamper into the stands. After a quick double-take, I realized it was none other than His Majesty Harry R. Lewis '68, Chief Maharajah of the College...
...tiger hunter of yore was a maharajah or british aristocrat who would take potshots at roaring beasts while perched atop an elephant. Celebrated in prints and woodcuts, this blood sport looked manly but carried with it about as much risk as watching a professional football game from a skybox, since the cats wouldn't attack an elephant. Today the typical tiger killer is more like an Indian man named Raju: a diminutive, ragged farmer who does not even own a gun. Nonetheless, as a member of the Jenu Kuruba tribe, Raju knows how to hunt the big cats...
...Feldstein has vocal critics, too, according to Warsh. "Lester Thurow, who himself was a candidate for the presidency of the Bureau in 1977, noting Feldstein's claim that a maharajah, receiving reports from five blind men feeling an elephant, could piece together an accurate picture, tartly compared Feldstein to a blind man suffering from the delusion of believing he was a maharajah," he writes...