Word: alie
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Other panelists included Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages and Culture Ali S. A. Asani; Lisa D. Cook, a research fellow at the Center for International Development; Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel; Professor of Education Marcelo Suarez-Orozco; and Wong, the Harvard Foundation's Student Advisory Committee co-chair...
...Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The general had to find a way to keep the well-connected Nawaz from mounting a challenge to his regime." Disposing of the head of the ancien régime has become something of a tradition in Pakistani politics: General Zia-ul-Haq had Zulfikar Ali Bhutto hanged after taking power in a 1977 coup; Bhutto's daughter, Benazir, didn't have to bother since it was the plane crash that killed General Zia that allowed her to come to power in 1988. Then, Nawaz Sharif put Benazir out of action with a slew of corruption...
...Malik B. Ali is a sophomore English major at Morehouse College in Atlanta...
...scuffle with hard-liners: in an impeachment trial last year, parliament ousted him as Minister of the Interior for permitting student demonstrations. Since then, his main vehicle of dissent has been the national daily Khordad. The newspaper has published defiant antiregime opinions by prominent clerics, notably Grand Ayatullah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who has been under house arrest since 1997 for questioning velayat-e-faqih, the absolute authority of the clergy. In an explosive article, a young cleric, Mohsen Kadivar, even criticized the royalist tendencies of the clerics and their treatment of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei as a shah. Hard...
...early this week. Why isn't that a surprise? Isn't it natural to envision Matt cruising around Texas in his Chevy, Bud in one hand, bud in the other?... Riverdance comes to Boston this week. Hooray!...Will Smith keeps getting mentioned for high profile upcoming movies--a Muhammad Ali biopic, taking the place of Carey Grant in a remake of Charade, etc. Why the delusion? Will Smith is slightly charming, and a box office draw, but he still can't act... Did you know Modern Maturity has the highest circulation of any magazine in the country? And here...