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...Muslim and she is Hindu; but this is Kashmir, and love triumphs over religion. Before they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this is a Rushdie book, he isn't just a diplomat; he's also the scion of a cultured Ashkenazi family, a hero of the French Resistance and a chum of Marlon Brando's. This is the kind of preposterous, over-laden detail that bends and almost cracks the novel at various points. Yet the plot somehow works. The ambassador falls for Boonyi, she betrays Shalimar...
...surface, they seem an odd couple. one, the son of migrant workers, grew up in a house without hot water or a telephone. The other is the scion of a rich and powerful political dynasty. But Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush have joined in a largely successful effort to build a more muscular executive branch. Drawn to the quiet lawyer's up-by-his-bootstraps story, then-Governor Bush persuaded Gonzales to leave his lucrative law practice in Houston and become his general counsel in 1994. Bush later put Gonzales on the Texas Supreme Court, and when Bush moved...
While the rest of America sat watching New Year's Day bowl games on TV on Jan. 1, 1984, Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty and J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil, shook hands on a $5.3 billion merger. In Getty's luxurious New York City apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue, Liedtke agreed to pay $110 a share for 43% of Getty Oil. Five days later, Getty's board of directors approved a deal--but not with Pennzoil. Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 6, Texaco Chairman John McKinley had made a bold $125-a-share bid for Getty, and Getty's board...
...Nidal began life as a privileged bourgeois scion of what was formerly Palestine. His father, Khalil, was a prominent landowner and agricultural merchant in Jaffa who at one time had close ties with Israel's legendary first President, Chaim Weizmann. One of Abu Nidal's elder brothers, Mohammed, is still a prosperous merchant in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abu Nidal attended school in Jaffa and Jerusalem, but his family fled before the 1948 war that accompanied the foundation of Israel. Eventually the family settled in Beirut. By some accounts, Abu Nidal attended the American University there, where he trained...
RELEASED. THOMAS CHOLMONDELEY, 37, aristocratic scion of one of Kenya's most famous colonial families; after a High Court judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to try him for the killing of Kenya Wildlife Service warden Simon Ole Sisina; in Nakuru. Cholmondeley told police he thought the warden, who was investigating allegations of illegal bush meat trading on his 400,000-hectare ranch, was an armed robber in an increasingly violent region. Cholmondeley's great-grandfather, Lord Delamere, was among the first whites to settle in the then-British colony in the early 20th century, and established a reputation...