Is India’s Anna Hazare ‘Gandhi Lite’?
INDIA: He may dress, talk and fast like his hero
Mahatma Gandhi, but critics say anti-graft activist Anna Hazare has
only managed to co-opt the style, not the substance, of India’s
independence icon. The figure of Gandhi looms large — and literally
— over Hazare’s anti-corruption campaign, with a giant photograph of
the apostle of non-violence providing the backdrop to the
74-year-old’s public hunger strike.
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‘Dangerous’ Irene lashes Bahamas, aims at US coast
BAHAMAS: Hurricane Irene pounded the Bahamas
Wednesday with sustained winds of 120 miles (195 kilometers) an hour
and churned up heavy seas as it barreled on a path toward the
populous US east coast.
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Trapped journalists freed from Tripoli hotel
LIBYA: They were 33 foreign journalists, a
former US congressman and an Indian pacifist held against their will
in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel by armed Kadhafi soldiers, until Wednesday
when they were finally freed. Henry Morton, a freelance journalist
working for The Associated Press,
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