Word: scions
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...nationalist remedy for the mounting ailments afflicting India, in particular the secessionist movements in Punjab, Kashmir and Assam and mounting sectarian and political violence. Since Rajiv Gandhi's assassination last month, the B.J.P. has appropriated the Congress slogan of "Stability" and argued that Gandhi's party, without a Nehru scion at the top, has become too shaky to lead India. Said Advani last week: "The B.J.P. appears to the common voter as the only oasis of stability in a scenario where all other parties seem to be on the verge of disintegration." It is up to Indian voters to decide...
...otherworldliness is strongest in Once on This Island. It blends a color- splashed tropical look, a calypso-influenced sound and folkloric storytelling with a moral order and sense of justice derived from ancient Greek myths. A romance between a foundling girl of the peasant class (La Chanze) and a scion of wealthy planters (Jerry Dixon) seems hopeless in this life yet is resolved happily in generations to come, through enchantment and physical transformations of mankind into nature...
Social observers believe a daughter's lot will improve as women become more valuable to China's growing economy and as the one-child policy eventually makes every scion -- male and female -- precious to parents. Chen's own daughter Jiang Xu, 19, reflects changing attitudes when she expresses her preference for a daughter: "To have a boy means happiness for a moment. To have a girl means a lifetime of good fortune...
...scion of a wealthy Philadelphia family, Bokreceived his undergraduate degree from Stanford in 1951and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1954,where he was any editor of the Harvard LawReview...
Garrett's dismissal followed months of hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...