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...wide spectrum of Pakistanis upset with Musharraf - from Islamists to communists to professionals to small-business folk. "What the government did to stop Sharif was absolutely disastrous for this country," says shopkeeper Oranzab Shahid. "As a citizen of Pakistan it was his right to come back." Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, has sworn to lead the battle against Musharraf from the PMLN London office, and Sharif's wife Kulsoom Nawaz, a potent politician in her own right, has said she will return to Pakistan in coming days. "Musharraf should be worried," says Shahbaz. "He has fired the pistol shot...
...lances and paraded through the city, while other disembodied heads were used for games of palla, a primitive version of tennis." Machiavelli later encountered a henchman trained in strangulation, a mother who kept a recipe book of beauty treatments and slow-acting poisons, and a ruler who ate his brother-in-law's heart...
...wife Pat decided to split up. Their son Lance was casually introduced into the gay social scene of Greenwich Village in what would remain one of the most matter-of-fact treatments of a homosexual TV "character" for decades. The series raised what seem like--in the Big Brother and MySpace era--quaint questions about how taping reality alters reality. But ethically justifiable or not, it remains one of the greatest documents of American life, American media and the steadily vanishing distinctions between...
...reform movement is allowing neighborhoods to take matters into their own hands and run their own schools. Broadmoor, where I grew up and my brother still lives, is a mixed neighborhood, racially and economically, right in the heart of New Orleans. It has long had an active biracial improvement association, which the storm kicked up a couple of notches. It formed a partnership with Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, which has sent more than 90 students and faculty to help plan and rebuild, and aid from the philanthropist Walter Shorenstein and Bill Clinton's foundation soon followed. Thus fortified...
...Public support is paramount for protest leaders who are now on the run. "The wave of sympathy is in our favor," says one activist who has so far escaped the police dragnet. "You knock on a door late at night and whisper, 'Let me in, brother.' People willingly help us, even though they're well aware of the dire consequences." Still, the regime is doing its best to prevent further unrest and capture any stray dissidents. Trucks full of hired thugs patrol major street corners in Rangoon. The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sérgio...