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...time in the 1950s and '60s when Pakistanis would proudly boast that they were America's 51st state. No longer. American support for Israel, the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and increasing tensions with Iran are taken as proof that the U.S. is following an anti-Islamic agenda. Pakistanis point out that before Musharraf dragged Pakistan into America's war on terror, there were no suicide bombers...
...fact, Crone and Tosteson say that Mass. Hall administrators exploited a leadership void at the Medical School in order to push through their agenda...
...University returned a $2.5 million gift from United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan—pledged four years earlier—after it was deemed that a think-tank funded by Zayed promoted an anti-Semetic agenda...
...part of something quietly sanctioned by Cuba's interim President, Raul Castro. Since being tapped by his older brother, Fidel Castro, as the country's provisional leader in the summer of 2006 after Fidel underwent major intestinal surgery, Raul, 76, has pushed a more pragmatic, even reform-minded agenda that has encouraged limited public debate - and, just as important, worked to undermine hard-line fidelistas like Alarcon. The Avila episode was yet another sign of how firmly Raul seems to have consolidated his position - and why he's most likely to succeed his brother as full President this weekend...
...often meeting with a small group of Cabinet ministers. On Thursdays at 10:30, there is a full Cabinet session, with Mrs. Thatcher at the center of the boat-shaped table. She hurries the ministers briskly along, rarely allowing any departures from the agenda. When Parliament is in session, she spends the mornings with her staff readying for question time, that twice-weekly exercise in which the Prime Minister fields queries, and often insults, from opposition M.P.s. A cook is brought in on question days to prepare what Thatcher calls "good nursery food" (shepherd's pie, or perhaps a stew...