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What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and the place is India. An unofficial royal family that President Reagan aptly compared to the Adams family in the U.S. and that Indians liken to the Mogul emperors and maharajahs of ages past, the House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India "a democratic monarchy...
...Sikhism in Punjab at the end of the 15th century. Two centuries later, however, Guru Nanak's teaching of religious tolerance was radically redirected by the tenth and last of the Sikh gurus, a skilled horseman and dauntless fighter named Gobind Singh. With his people being persecuted by Mogul warlords, Gobind formed a fierce fraternity of "warriors of God" known as the Khalsa (Pure...
HOWIE HIP, 24, a movie mogul who worked his way from Harvard to the William Morris agency mail room to the head of a major studio in just under three weeks, sits behind an expansive desk. He is screaming into the telephone...
...likely to fall further. The surge in supply, though, could put a sharp kink in the profits of U.S. oil companies. Last week Frank Kneuttel, of the Gintel energy-research group, warned clients away from energy stocks. Said he: "The price is like a snowball coming downhill without a mogul to stop it." Falling prices will also hurt Mexico, Venezuela and other countries that depend on oil income to pay off their debt...
Hollywood has lately been filching French comedies as source material (The Toy, The Man Who Loved Women, Blame It on Rio). You may as well see Les Compères before some mogul gets the bright idea to cast, say, Clint Eastwood and Jack Lemmon in a remake. Bet they call it Daddy Daddy...