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...tomb of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the populist Pakistani President overthrown in a military coup in 1977 and executed the following year, looms like an hallucinatory apparition over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of central Sindh Province. Meant to evoke the soaring grandeur of Mughal monuments, from a distance the concrete monstrosity rather resembles a Play-Doh model of the Taj Mahal pinched to fit on a foundation substantially trimmed by the high price of land in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...
...leaders dictate how their people vote. In keeping with this tradition, many of these voters don't question Benazir's judgment in cutting deals with Musharraf, or anything else. "If Benazir got a horse, and told people to vote for the horse," says 27-year-old Larkana shopkeeper Muhammad Ali Sheikh, "we would line up to vote for the horse...
Sophomore skipper Alex Bick and freshman crew Grace Charles looked strong in second-place for A-division, while the sophomore tandem of skipper Ali Beyer and crew Jess Walsh took eighth place in B-division...
...States in 1994. The terms of that agreement remain classified, but the presence of U.S. forces in this corner of the Middle East is hardly a secret. About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here. And the U.A.E. Port of Jebel Ali, one of the few docks capable of handling a U.S. aircraft carrier, gets more visits from Navy ships than any other port outside the United States. Qatar signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1992. Today, the sprawling al-Udeid airbase there is home to roughly...
...earned a tie for eighth with her score of 156 (79-77). Sophomore Claire Sheldon tied for 14th, shooting a 159 (78-81). Her 21 pars were the second most of anyone in the field. Freshman Mia Kabasakalis tied for 25th with a 162 (80-82), and junior Ali Bode recorded a 165 (86-79), putting her in a tie for 37th. While the squad was “generally pleased” with its performance, it is “difficult to adjust to seeing scores higher than they are used to,” Rhoads said. In this...