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...RAJ: A SCRAPBOOK OF BRITISH INDIA, 1877-1947 by Charles Allen...
DIED. Paul Scott, 57, British novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on his experiences as a soldier in India during World War II. His interlocking 2,000-page masterpiece is a blending of private and public histories that evokes a doomed world of racism and heroics...
Other scientists too are apprehensive. D. Raj Reddy, a computer scientist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, fears that universally available microcomputers could turn into formidable weapons. Among other things, says Reddy, sophisticated computers in the wrong hands could begin subverting a society by tampering with people's relationships with their own computers?instructing the other computers to cut off telephone, bank and other services, for example. The danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft...
...rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves at bay." He seems accommodating, but not until the next day are we assured that it will be possible...
...insoluble problem, the historical impossibility. Old impregnable conundrums usually fall to the simplest, most elegant assaults. Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot. Hannibal crossed the Alps with elephants-military genius riding through the snow upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man; at that instant, three centuries of America's racial tragedy began slowly to unravel...