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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 2:48 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Sonia Gandhi, heir to India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, tearfully gave up her chance to become prime minister Tuesday. ... The decision by the head of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, India's equivalent of America's Kennedys, triggered anguished scenes at the red sandstone parliament complex and outside her home. (Reuters)<p>***...and entirely unnecessary.***
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:46 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	Dare we say, not even accurate.
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 7:49 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	Might as well say like America's Bushes.<p>Unnecessary in addition to inaccurate.
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Mike Billings	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 2:57 am
Joined: Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 37 Location: San Francisco, Calif.	Must we always compare? Why can't it just be?
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 4:24 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Wayne Countryman: [QB]Might as well say like America's Bushes.<p>QB]<hr></blockquote><p>But none of the Bushes has been assassinated.
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 5:43 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by ADKbrown: <p>But none of the Bushes has been assassinated.<hr></blockquote><p>But only one Kennedy was ever president.<p>It just sucks from the start.
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larepublica	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 6:18 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 28, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 399 Location: Lesotho, where it does snow	The Gandhis are not socialite drunks who bed movie stars. The Kennedys did not found the world's most populous democracy through a non-violent campaign that defeated the Brittish Empire. (Of course, no Kennedy ever whimped out after winning an election...)
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Finn DeSiecle	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:38 am
Joined: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 76 Location: NJ	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>The Kennedys did not found the world's most populous democracy through a nonviolent campaign that defeated the British Empire.<hr></blockquote><p>Neither did the Gandhi family to which Sonia belongs, though.<p>An explainer graf in a cnn.com story backs up my recollection on this: "Mohandas Gandhi, popularly known as the Mahatma, or Great Soul, is not related to Sonia Gandhi or the Gandhi-Nehru family, the political dynasty into which she married."
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vtuss	Post subject: Re: Quite a stretch ... Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 6:28 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 16, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 476 Location: Twin Cities	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Finn DeSiecle: <p>Neither did the Gandhi family to which Sonia belongs, though.<p><hr></blockquote><p>Although Nehru was one of the top Indian National Congress/Congress Party leaders starting as early as the 1920s.<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru-Gandhi_family http://www.cncw.com/india/nehru.htm
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