Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
...long? The B.J.P. has touched a responsive chord with its calls for a "Hindu Rashtra," or Hindu nation, a society and government centered on respect for Hinduism and in particular Rama. The party's emphasis on depriving minorities, especially Muslims, of special rights such as funding for religious schools and a separate civil code has also tapped a powerful vein of resentment among anxious middle-class Hindus, who feel their interests are being ignored by New Delhi. Indians have taken as well to the party's emphasis on civic virtue and piety. But some leaders are worried that...
...Lifers insist they get no special treatment for their good works, no favoritism from the parole board. For many, a tangled struggle for survival landed them behind bars in the first place. Now they use what limited means they have to ease that struggle for someone else. "Society looks at us as someone who can't do anything -- we're not taxpayers or anything," says Maxwell Melvins, who ended up in jail after shooting an innocent bystander in an argument over drugs. "Well, this is my way to reach back...
...Mari, Komi, Yakut, Karelian and Bashkir autonomous republics, each the homeland of a distinct ethnic group, have all called for some form of separatism. Districts like the Irkutsk region of Siberia have adopted declarations of "equality and independence," and the city of Nizhni-Novgorod has petitioned the federation for special status...
BUREAUS: Barrett Seaman (Deputy Chief of Correspondents); Suzanne Davis (Deputy, Administration) Special Correspondent: Michael Kramer Correspondent at Large: Bonnie Angelo Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Diplomatic Correspondent: Christopher Ogden...