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...Earlier this year, he held the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills-a pet project of the Prime Minister-to be unconstitutional. Many in Pakistan suggest that Musharraf's principal motive in dismissing Chaudhry may have stemmed from fears that the increasingly independent Chief Justice would obstruct the President's bid for another term, which requires a constitutional amendment ratified by the Supreme Court and approved by Parliament. Chaudhry in private conversations had expressed doubt that the President should also be head of the army, says Asan Iqbal, Secretary of Information for deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League...
...devices that Sunni insurgents use to detonate improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the roadside bombs that are the No. 1 killer of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The only time he ever felt a pang of regret was in the spring of 2006, when he heard that the Pentagon, in a bid to fight the growing IED menace, had roped in a team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Abdallah, an electronics engineer by training, once dreamed of studying for a Ph.D. there. "I thought to myself, If my life had gone differently, who knows? I might have been...
...mail, Hoxby praised the chairman of the Economics Department, James H. Stock, for "trying to ensure that the Harvard situation worked out for us," a possible reference to her husband's bid for tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...Reeves] has simply tried to find a fall guy to pin his troubles on. I deeply resent the accusations toward me, and I deeply resent that my tax dollars are being used by his staff to point figures at me,” says Winters, who lost his bid for a council seat in four 1990s elections. “If anything, Ken Reeves is trying to portray himself as somehow the victim of the campaign of a local newspaper. If he can successfully convey this mistruth to others, it only helps him politically...
...after several days of debate at Faculty meetings. Like other important details, it has been left to the arbitrary judgment of the SCGE.Similarly, professors fought tenaciously to ensure that their particular subject would be included—and seemed to care about little else. For instance, when a bid to include history in one category failed, an amendment to require some sort of historical study succeeded. The result is a curriculum that by including everything has become bland gruel.Consequently, students’ worst fears look set to be realized: General Education will be nothing more than Core version...