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    Gandhi's Diaper

    By Richard Day on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 2:10pm |

    Despite Protests, Gandhi Auction Is to Go On

    By Jennifer 8. Lee AND Robert Mackey
    Mahatma Gandhi's Zenith watch.Antiquorum An auction for Gandhi's possessions, including this watch, is scheduled to proceed on Thursday.

    Despite direct appeals from the Indian government and a last-minute stay from an Indian court, an auction of personal items of Mohandas K. Gandhi's -- including his sandals, bowl, watch and spectacles -- is scheduled to go ahead as planned on Thursday in New York City, the auction house said Wednesday morning.

    "It's still planned, still going ahead," said Julien Schaerer, director of the New York watch department of Antiquorum, a leading watch auctioneer. Antiquorum is handling the auction in part because the possessions include a 1910 sterling Zenith pocket watch belonging to Gandhi, the political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement.


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    Ford & Chrysler not far behind
    Merril Lynch and BOA
    Any investment is just goin in blind
    What to do with my capital today
    I'm gonna buy Gandhi's diaper

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    Banks are failing right & left
    Investment options are a trap
    Offering no real return & bereft
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    All my life I worked and slaved
    Rather than celebrate
    Rather than spend I always saved
    So hard to concentrate in these tough times
    Where should I put my money
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