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...sees the "many revolutions within that revolution" everywhere. Mr. Ghate, a rough-edged slum dweller and organizer for Shiv Sena, a violent Hindu chauvinist group, displays an inspired streak of social activism and complains in earnest, and in English, about the "absence of civic sense" in his neighborhood. Subramaniam is a Brahman and scientist whose grandfather was a Hindu priest, once the flamekeepers of reactionary Hindu society. But the next generation of Brahmans, like Subramaniam's father, led India's political- reform movements, and now Subramaniam's own generation, the most accomplished and Westernized to date, is the ironic...
That set the tone for the showdown. U.S. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, announcing that President Bush refused to intervene in the Eastern strike, could not resist a verbal shiv of his own. "Mr. Lorenzo," he said, "has obviously not got the trust and admiration of his employees." As unionists burned an effigy of the Texas Air chairman, their leaders laid ambitious plans to expand the strike through a series of secondary boycotts that would tie up commuter traffic across the country -- a nightmare that was averted when judges in several cities slapped temporary restraining orders on strikes of intercity rail...
...with no apparent regret. "It wouldn't work for me. But I do what I want with my music, so I get away with murder there." Raised in a Lutheran family outside Houston, Lovett, whose gentle eyes are set into the lean, long-jawed face of a back- alley shiv artist, acts straight but makes intrepid music. Listen to the recent Pontiac (MCA), and you can really hear him cut loose in tunes like If I Had a Boat: "The mystery masked man was smart/ He got himself a Tonto/ 'Cause Tonto did the dirty work for free/ But Tonto...
Crimson: has tight deadline and rigid space requirements and has to publish huge advertisements for "SHIV in Concert...
After considering its evidence, McCarthy's team decided to call its find a planet, or "more accurately a brown dwarf." This kind of quasi-star, whose existence was first theorized by Shiv Sharan Kumar, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, has never been observed directly before. Said Kumar of the Arizona sighting: "People wish for planets, but these are not them." - By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...