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"ref": "1998 April 13, Salman Rushdie, “Mohandas Gandhi”, in Time",
"text": "Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept.",
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"ref": "2009 November 18, Julie Schmit, “China pushes solar, wind power development”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-12",
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