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| Rajya Sabha not
second to Lok Sabha |
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| A determined Supreme Court
of India has thrown out the petition filed to seek the
review of its two-part judgment. One, a Rajya Sabha member
need not be normally a resident of the state which returns
him or her through its assembly. Two, secret ballot system
is not germane to free and fair election. |
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| Battle
for Congress heads to tense finish |
| WASHINGTON, Saturday (Reuters)
- The battle for control of the U.S. Congress headed yesterday
to a tense finish, with Democrats threatening to sweep
Republicans out of power and President George W. Bush
trying to stoke turnout among the party faithful. |
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| Titanic success
was bittersweet: Winslet |
| NEW
YORK (AP) - The release of the blockbuster that made her
a household name, "Titanic," should have been
a happy time for Kate Winslet. Instead, she was mourning
the loss of her first love, Stephen Tredre. "Looking
back, I see what I was dealing with when `Titanic' came
out," the 31-year-old actress says in Sunday's Parade
magazine. "I had a lot of pain, and I was confused
about who I was." |
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| South Africa buries
the past |
| JOHANNESBURG
(AP) - A remarkable thing happened after the death this
week of the ruthless and reviled P.W. Botha, apartheid
South Africa's last hard-line president: The black government
Botha toiled to prevent, sent condolences, offered a state
funeral, and ordered flags flown at half staff. |
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| Filmmaker
sees lessons in Iranian history |
| NEW YORK (Reuters)
- Iranian artist Shirin Neshat plans to shoot a film about
the United States overthrowing a democratically-elected
government in Iran to gain control of the nation's vast
oil supplies. |
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| The
veil that launched a thousand protests |
| It is
not raging like an uncontrollable forest fire. But the
fires have been lit and whether the ensuing ideological
flames could be doused without too much damage to man
and materiel would depend a lot on moderation prevailing
over extremism on every side. |
