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...engendered by the five year crackdown have seen Islamist influence grow. This is manifested in the emergence of suicide bombers, although the Chechens depart from conventional Qaeda practice by using women in this role - a habit learned, perhaps, from the secular nationalists of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, the movement that claims authorship of suicide bombing as a terror weapon. Simultaneous attacks on two airliners, of course, is another Qaeda operational signature...
...province in fighting that reportedly left several dozen militants dead. Acting President Sergei Abramov survived a mine attack on his motorcade in Grozny, but 12 members of the presidential security service were later abducted by the rebels. School Inferno INDIA Police arrested five people in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, including the owner of a private school, on suspicion of negligence after at least 88 children died and dozens more suffered serious burns in a fire that gutted the school building. A Striking Difference PERU Labor unions claimed wide support for a 24-hour national strike to protest President...
...studied music at Oxford and returned to Madras to write jingles for an ad agency. In 1992 Tamil director Mani Ratnam chose Rahman, then 26, to be musical director of the movie Roja. Scoring an Indian film means writing the songs (with a lyricist) as well as composing and conducting the background music. Rahman proved a master of it all. His songs were recognizably Indian but paraded a world of musical influences, from raga to reggae, from Broadway to Ennio Morricone, with each tune heightening the film's drama...
...spectacular melodies that not only serve the drama, they create their own?as in the duet ballads Yeh Haseen Vadiyan and Roja Janeman, which first are grounded in recitative, then soar into celestial melody. The soundtrack parades the composer's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman. He plays with reggae and jungle rhythms, runs cool variations on Ennio Morricone's scores for Italian westerns, fiddles with Broadway-style orchestrations. An astonishing debut...
...month?only her second interview ever: "There was my mother-in-law's body, lying by our side. Basically, I felt that most probably Rajiv would end up the same way." She was right. Rajiv won office, becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense of obligation and agreed to take her husband...