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Elsewhere in Ahmadabad, Congress Party politician Ahsan Jafri gave shelter to fellow Muslims in his home, part of a 16-house Muslim colony. When the mob came, Jafri fired his revolver, injuring a few attackers. Furious, the crowd tore into the colony, dragging out the residents and setting them ablaze. Jafri and his family died. In the Hindu mob was a schoolboy, Roshan, 12. From a safe distance, he claimed, he saw Jafri's daughters being stripped and raped. He sounded frightened but admiring. When he grew up, would he do that? "Maybe not rape," he said thoughtfully...
...last person to kiss Yitzhak Rabin came to Harvard two Sundays ago. The man who embraced the Israeli prime minister just minutes before his assassination is no politician and no general, but Israel’s foremost rockstar, Aviv Geffen. What’s strange, though, is that Geffen could just as easily have spoken at the Institute of Politics as performed at Paine Hall. This antiestablishment preacher of peace is as political as they come...
...administration at its Berkeley campus. The liberal, New Jersey-born economist earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has also taught there, as well as at Princeton and Harvard - where her son, Elliott, 18, is studying government. Tyson, in mock horror, fears he'll become a politician. Married to novelist Erik Tarloff, she has written many books and articles, on such topics as Eastern Europe, high technology and global trade competition...
...Omen Austria's notorious far-right populist politician and inveterate headline-grabber Jorg Haider visited Iraq this week for a friendly meeting with Saddam Hussein...
...Here & There TAIWAN Is it hot in this parliament, or is it just us? On the heels of politician Chu Mei-feng's personal Sex, Lies & Videotape, yet another Taiwanese official is getting down and dainty. Popular 41-year-old MP Yu Yueh-hsia (left) will pose for the Chinese-language edition of Playboy, not naked but in a fetchingly low-cut evening gown. Yu says the magazine pursued her for two years, but it was her daughter who persuaded her to appear. She adds that she will go naked only when she turns 60. To which we can only...