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Just after dawn the old city begins to wake. The jackhammer throb of a thousand electricity generators competes with raucous Hindi music blasting from the stereos they have brought to life. A discordant orchestra of scooter bleats, car horns, rickshaw chimes and temple bells nearly drowns out one of the day's early funeral processions. The cortege turns into the packed alleys surrounding the Golden Temple, where lanes that barely fit two abreast are thronged with devotees, foreheads smeared with vermilion tikka, a blessing from the temple priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On the Holy Ganges | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...hard data, though, lies a more stirring story about reconciliation on both sides of the fence. Pete Peterson, a POW for six years in Hanoi, returned to the country as U.S. ambassador in 1997 and quickly ingratiated himself with its people by riding around town on his motor scooter and marrying a Vietnamese woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Sunny Vietnam | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...shaken awake in his sepulcher but with a few good bites left in him. He enunciates plot points like a teacher with a thrilling classroom style; his voice has cello music in it. His character also cues the film's one giddy musical moment: when Dooku rides a celestial scooter, composer John Williams borrows The Wizard of Oz's theme music for the Wicked Witch on her flying bike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blockbuster Summer: Let the Battle Begin! | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...toughness, halting a Minutewomen rally with great defense. After a bloop double to lead off, Brotemarkle got UMass’ top hitter, Teri Rooney, to pop out to left. Brotemarkle’s full count offering to the next batter, the Minutewomen’s home run leader Scooter Wheeler, was lined to right...

Author: By Robert A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UMass Ends Softball’s Win Streak | 4/12/2002 | See Source »

...will also open up a scooter industry to make the walk of shame that much shorter,” Marks said. “We will capitalize on being Quadded...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Scheme, Pray on Eve of Housing Judgment | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

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