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...most famous bad guy; of a brain hemorrhage; in Bombay. In more than 200 films he frightened and delighted generations of Indian children with his shaved-headed villains, notably the menacing Mogambo in the 1987 Hindi film Mr. India. He was best known to U.S. audiences as Mola Ram, the chief thug in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...
...October, when the new HCCR committees were announced, we worried that Harvard might attempt to ram through a poorly considered implementation of April’s HCCR report without due consideration. We encouraged the committees to remain committed to the review’s purpose and not simply serve as rubber stamps. But that never meant shirking their responsibilities to ultimately make decisive decisions. No committee at Harvard will ever please everyone, particularly not a committee whose purview is the nature of a liberal education itself. If the Committee fails to come to clear conclusions and to offer systematic instructions...
...them to Bangkok director Prachya Pinkaew. The filmmaker was dazzled but had problems getting backing for a film with Jaa in the lead role. "Thai audiences are not used to seeing people from the northeast in the lead," says Sita Vosbein, managing director of Pinkaew's production house, Baa Ram Ewe. "They think people with dark skin are uneducated and ugly. They are always cast as bad guys." When the film was a hit, Jaa felt accepted at last. "I have never been so proud," he says. "I've been fighting discrimination since I was very young. For people...
...HOLY BIKINI Italian designer Roberto Cavalli is famous for his racy fashions, but he was dressed down by Hindu activists for this summer's line of women's undergarments and swimsuits imprinted with images of Lord Ram, one of the religion's most venerated figures. Cavalli apologized and London's Harrods department store pulled the line...
...operatives would use traditional methods of attack. They propose acquiring a black limo, gutting all but its front seats and filling the empty portion presumably with explosives. They also discuss using an oil truck to ram through the front entrance...