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Mail Call: Prince, Not Leader.(Letter to the editor)

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Our year-end report on Rahul Gandhi led many readers to send in their own views on his ability as a future leader. One said, "A soft-spoken prince charming, he behaves like a foreign tourist." Wrote another, "It remains to be seen if he can emulate his father's leadership qualities."

A Dynastic Heir Apparent?

I found your Dec. 25, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007, cover story about Rahul Gandhi, a person who has achieved nothing in life apart from being born to a successful political family, an atrocious choice of subject ("India's Crown Prince"). I shudder to think of a nonachiever, a mediocre person like Gandhi, heading anything whatever; yet this is now a ...

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