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...Pakistan's Supreme Court considers the latest petitions contesting his re-election bid--it already dismissed three such cases in September--Musharraf promised the court he would step down as army chief if re-elected President. The general, who became head of state in a bloodless coup in 1999, was given a one-time exemption to the constitutional law, allowing him to retain both positions until the end of his current term...
...taking supersharp pictures of space, the go-to telescope is the Hubble, in orbit above the earth. But astronomers can't just use the space telescope whenever they feel like it; they have to bid for time on the badly oversubscribed instrument. After about 2010, when the aging Hubble starts to fail, astronomers won't be able...
...about its basketball conference titled *The Last Amateurs*. However, unlike the Ancient Eight, the Patriot League does participate in the Division I-AA football playoffs, sending its regular-season champ into the bracket as an automatic qualifier, and, in up years, a second squad with an at-large bid. In this way, the annual set of Ivy-Patriot clashes are the best means available of comparing the league’s teams to the rest of the I-AA field...
BOSTON—Days after a superior judge ruled against her, a Harvard medical student appeared in appeals court yesterday in her bid for extra break time to express milk into a bottle during a medical certification exam...
...trademark tug-of-war certainly intensified a decade ago when, in the aftermath of the fall of Czechoslovakian communism, Anheuser-Busch failed in its bid to buy Budvar. In more than 100 court cases and administrative proceedings worldwide, Budvar and Anheuser-Busch have tangled over which brewer gets to call its suds Budweiser. (Through the outcome of an agreement earlier in the century, Budvar beer sold in North America, for example, is called Czechvar. In much of Europe, the Anheuser-Busch brand is marketed...