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Governing Pakistan's a lot easier when your predecessor isn't around. Coup leader General Parvez Musharraf on Wednesday announced that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will be charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping. The charges, which arise from the alleged attempt by Nawaz to stop the general's plane from landing in Pakistan after firing him as commander of the Pakistani military, carry the death penalty. "This appears to be General Musharraf?s solution to the problem of what to do about Nawaz," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "The general had to find...
Yale now looks ahead to next weekend, when it will attempt to maintain its position atop the Ivy standings at Princeton...
Dunphy has front-loaded his schedule in an attempt to snatch some early national recognition, like Princeton did two years ago. The Quakers open against Kentucky at the Preseason NIT, in a field that also includes Arizona, Utah and Maryland. Penn will travel to Kansas...
...took over and prevented Dartmouth from inflicting any further damage. The Big Green did engineer a threatening drive to the Columbia 25-yard line with just over a minute to play in the game. However, on first down, Dartmouth QB Brian Mann fumbled the ball on an errant pitch attempt. The Lions recovered, and went on to win their first league victory of the season...
First Larry Flynt, and now this. On Wednesday the Supreme Court will attempt to strip down its complicated message on the legality of outlawing nude bars. It's an issue the court has tackled before, but without much decisiveness: A convoluted 1991 ruling, which included four separate majority opinions, upheld the constitutionality of such laws. Before the court now, however, is a 1998 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in favor of Erie, Pa.'s Kandy's Dinner Theater, which challenged a local public indecency ordinance and bills itself as the "First Amendment Rights Headquarters." The state court sided with the dissenting...