Word: raj
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list goes on. This fall he will be seen as an aristocratic con man, a crook of many faces, in Orion Pictures' mystery-comedy Scandalous; early next year he will be on TV again, as an officer of the British Raj in HBO's adaptation of M.M. Kaye's The Far Pavilions. ''Once again I had to ride a horse," he says. "I've been in so many films where I had to ride. And I can't ride at all, not at all. It's dreadful work...
...announced that it expected to spend up to $95 million a year on "new generation" computers for military applications. IBM, which has traditionally taken a hands-off attitude toward such "blue sky" efforts, is said to have committed a 25-man team to building a fifth-generation machine. Says Raj Reddy, director of Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute: "The Japanese may have awakened a sleeping giant...
...nation's leading computer centers: M.I.T., Stanford and Carnegie-Mellon. Carnegie-Mellon is perhaps the pre-eminent computer school in the nation. It has more terminals available to students, a more structured computer curriculum, and a number of illustrious experts, such as Herbert Simon, Allen Newell and Raj Reddy, on its faculty. Says Carnegie-Mellon Research Scientist Ronald Cole: "C.M.U. is definitely the most intense computer environment...
...Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes. Then came successive waves of Bengalis, both Hindus and Muslims, who were first brought in by the British to run the tea plantations and the civil service of the British raj. Bengali immigration intensified during partition in 1947 and again after the creation of Bangladesh. Although its population is one of the fastest growing on the subcontinent, Assam has only 254 people per sq. km. West Bengal, by contrast, has 614, one of the highest population densities in the world...
From the Khyber Pass to the shores of the Arabian Sea, the land has known all manner of conquerors: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, the British raj. Today, Pakistan has as much geopolitical importance as it had centuries ago. To the west lies an Iran convulsed by Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, to the east a teeming, sometimes hostile India, to the north and west an Afghanistan occupied by the Soviet army. When Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, 58, meets President Reagan in Washington this week, strategic issues, not surprisingly, will dominate the agenda...