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...whose boundary-pushing contributions have helped shape the information age in a myriad of ways. The 21st century may be the one in which ordinary people create improvements in such fields as education, health, environmental science and economics, using the inventive technology possible only in this uncommon information age. Ratna Ray Toronto...
...over a seven-decade career; in Varanasi. A Muslim who performed at countless Hindu ceremonies, Khan was seen as a symbol of Indian inter-religious unity and secularism. He played at the young country's first Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2001. DIED. Joe Rosenthal, 94, combat photographer for AP who in 1945 captured what became the iconic image of World War II?U.S. soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, site of some of the war's bloodiest battles; in Novato...
...blue-liveried servants passed around flutes of champagne and a midnight snack of lobster salad. All night, the local Portuguese crowded to get a closer look at Gina Lollobrigida in a plunging pink ballgown, the Begum Aga Khan's colossal diamond necklace and Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew out the candles. It was 7 a.m. before Princess Irene of The Netherlands and Spain's Prince Carlos de Bourbon...
...does not trust his kingdom's fate entirely to heavenly hands. This week he was off to Washington to see Lyndon Johnson, in the hope that the coming year will bring an ample number of gifts stamped "Made in U.S.A." Accompanied by his petite wife, Queen Ratna, and Crown Prince Birenda, a Harvard student, the King will try to persuade the President of the need and importance of aiding Nepal, to which the U.S. has contributed $98 million since World...
...really wanted, she kept saying, was to be able to return to her beloved husband, Indonesia's deposed President Sukarno, 66, but the forces of evil have conspired to keep them apart. While she waited, Ratna Sari Dewi, 27, the Bung's fifth wife, has been living in Tokyo for ten months, but now even Japan has become unbearable. "What with all that smear about me in Japanese weeklies, I haven't had a day of repose," complained Dewi, disclosing that she had filed suit against the publisher of a novel about a former nightclub hostess...