James Fraser, a Scot, stayed in Surat from 1730 to 1740, and observed
Nader Shah's invasion from close quarters - as the East India Company must have been doing with great interest.
Abi
Nader is the first Lebanese designer to ever show in Paris' Haute Couture Fashion Week and is remembered for the stylish dresses he made for deceased Lebanese diva Sabah.
When her soon-to-be-husband's job as branch manager at the Orient Credit Bank took him to Tripoli,
Nader says she moved there with him and started her career as accountancy controller at the Ministry of Finance in 1974.
The industry's multi-million-dollar campaign to defeat California's Proposition 103 "has mobilized citizens nationwide to fight for strengthened regulation and increased competition for the insurance industry," according to
Nader.
Nader said this happens because Congress has "turned itself into an inkblot" and is not asserting its own constitutional authority.
The 2008 Ralph
Nader campaign showed its verve in production of its video, photo art and web postings, all the work of the class of 2008.
Nader says he wants to end corporate subsidies and cut the military budget.
Nader sera el tercer candidato a la Presidencia de EU en los comicios del 2008 y en esta oportunidad sera muy interesante observar el efecto de su campana sobre los republicanos, mas que sobre los democratas.
Nearly three million Americans - more than two per cent of the vote - backed
Nader when he stood in for the Green Party in the 2000 election.
For two hours, a series of talking heads, including
Nader himself, dissect the guy with the bad haircut and mortician's wardrobe, creating a portrait of someone so driven by his essential purpose - to protect the interests of the average man and woman - that he has virtually no inner life.
Still, The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph
Nader stands out.
Since the 2000 presidential election, Ralph
Nader has fallen so far from grace it is hard to believe that in the early 1970s polls showed him to be among the most admired men in America.
