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...crush of villagers who envelop the silver jeep and whose faces and skinny bodies are sliding across its windows like a human car wash. Sonia opens her door to stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens his window and watches with bemusement as showers of fragrant rose petals rain into his lap. It's a scene that has been repeated about 20 times in the past hour, and has at times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Burden | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...that she would prove to be a woefully inadequate party leader. Described by friends as shy and private, Sonia comes across as almost devoid of charisma. She assiduously avoids reporters and, whenever possible, political events. She shows scant comprehension of economics or international affairs, and seems entirely out of touch with the galloping high-tech industry that's driving the economy. She refuses to respond to personal attacks over her foreign birth, or to make any of her own. She has learned a halting Hindi, but her improving fluency only highlights her failure to spell out any vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Burden | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

Columbia scored first in the bottom of the second, when an error by co-captain Kara Brotemarkle allowed Lacie Nelson to touch home...

Author: By Ryan M. Donovan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Loses Way in New York | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

TECH: Blogs go video; touch screens with feeling; a virtual Capri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Apr. 19, 2004 | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...Calf Blues” to the exhilarating ragtime bounce of “They’re Red Hot,” in which Preston’s swaggering piano truly shines, Clapton’s interpretations are uniformly satisfying. And while his vocals can’t touch Johnson’s forlorn howl, Clapton sings with disarming sincerity, conviction and obvious passion for the music...

Author: By Akash Goel, William B. Higgins, Nathaniel A. Smith, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Music | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

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