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"If Advani can build the temple, let him try. I will support it"
Shiv Sena supremo, Balasaheb Thackeray, comments on some of the recent issues in conversation with one of our journalist. Speaking to our journalist, he states, "I do not know why this question should be asked over and over again because it is obvious that the traio -- or is it trio? Because I am not an Anglo-Indian to get these English words right -- cost us heavy. The Dalits, the Muslims and the Congress."
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The man at whom Mao smiled
On the night of March 17, Atal Behari Vajpayee smiled at Brajesh Chandra Mishra. Within 12 hours, the order transforming him from convenor of the BJP's external affairs cell to principal secretary of the 14th Prime Minister of India had been issued. Two days later, as the BJP's coalition partners squabbled over the privileges of power after having been sworn in, Mishra quietly assumed office.
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Just spock it to Bill
Benjamin Spock, prophet of infant bowel movements, messiah of mumps and, yes, dispenser of advice to millions of parents in some 42 languages on what they should to do when babies don't burp, went to heaven last week. Hearing the kindly paediatrician approach, the angels were in a right royal flutter. They sort of approved of his stands on Vietnam and the Bomb, but didn't quite go along with his method of raising children.
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Inside Track
It was an inauspicious beginning for the BJP Government, the moment that party cadres had dreamt about for decades. To begin with, arch-enemy Sonia Gandhi played the guardian angel to make the event possible. Sharad Pawar was all set to prevent Atal Behari Vajpayee taking over as Prime Minister by wooing away a disgruntled Jayalalitha, who had departed for Chennai charging the BJP leadership with leaking her real demands to the Press in order to embarrass her.
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