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...part of the same extended family. MTV is full of series whose premise is giving ordinary people the key to Celebville (Tough Enough, Making the Band). The Osbournes has managed to do the same thing with people who lived there to begin with. It took a somewhat famous clan and made them wildly famous, and yet to us, they're the nice folks down the street who hit the lottery. After all, we knew them back when they were merely somebodies...
...optimism as a family dynasty crumbled?and a rare ray of hope shone from its rubble. The dynasty was that of Omar Abdullah,a fresh-faced 32 year old whose grandfather and father have controlled Kashmiri politics since India got its independence. Omar was supposed to rejuvenate the clan's National Conference party; if it won the election, he would have become the state's chief minister. When votes were tallied at a local convention hall (named after his grandfather) in Omar's intended constituency of Gandherbal last Thursday, his supporters eagerly followed the count. But Omar broke away...
...newly hopeful Kashmir, there will now be a chief minister who does not belong to the Abdullah clan. Among the prime candidates is Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, a former Congress Party bigwig who formed his own People's Democratic Party in 1999. His daughter Mehbooba, 42, made the party a force by tirelessly campaigning for the victims of Kashmir's violence and?insisting that the decades-long impasse can't continue. "We don't have anAladdin's lamp," she told Time, "but we will provide a healing touch." Her fervor registered with Kashmir's voters, as even Omar Abdullah admits...
...group of men cradling antique machine guns comes from an old album in my home. It dates from about 1930, and its caption reads, "Sheik Mahmoud of Kurdistan. Surrendered to Political Officer Victor Holt VC accompanied by FO M.O." "Sheik Mahmoud" was Mahmoud Barzanji, chieftain of a famous Kurdish clan, who led a series of revolts against British rule in Iraq after World War I. "FO M.O." was Royal Air Force Flight Officer Max Oxford, my late father...
...under house arrest since the plot was discovered in March. There's doubt he will ever be tried. It's likely the death sentences will be commuted to life in prison by the Supreme Court. Still, despised as Burma's current leaders are, they've given Ne Win's clan a long-awaited comeuppance. For once Burmese are cheering the government...