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Pakistan may currently enjoy what seems to be a healthy if noisy democracy, but the office of army chief remains the most powerful one in the country - certainly exceeding the effective control of any politician or civilian bureaucrat. And now Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, is showing that he is truly in charge of the military - and hence the most powerful man in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shake-Up at the Top of Pakistan's Spy Agency | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...concept of service. What is the sharp distinction between jobs that are traditionally considered service, such as being a soldier, and jobs that are not, such as being a shop clerk? If that seems too clear, what about being a firefighter, police officer, doctor, sanitary worker, or bureaucrat? Without an understanding of which jobs, when paid for, still constitute service, a vision of universal service is equivalent to a new federal work program...

Author: By Daniel P. Robinson | Title: Servitude Nation | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

...Instead, the PPP settled on the 61-year-old Somchai, whose cautious demeanor bespeaks two decades spent in the judiciary. Somchai is a career bureaucrat and one of the PPP's most respected politicians. But his marriage to Thaksin's sister, who also served as a parliamentarian, makes him unacceptable to the PAD, which accuses Thaksin of having bought many of the rural voters who swept him into office with a record mandate. "[Somchai] is Thaksin's brother-in-law and will be even more his proxy than Samak ever was," Chamlong Srimuang, one of the PAD's leaders, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand Elects New PM | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...beside his mother as she played piano in church, and later sang in the choir. Jarreau was bright, and after high school opted to study psychology, earning a masters degree and landing work in San Francisco as a vocational rehabilitation counselor. One problem: "I was a horrible bureaucrat and organizer," says Jarreau, who quit his job and began eking out a living in the rich jazz scene of late-'60s California instead. It was after a 1974 Los Angeles show, when he opened for the legendary Les McCann, that he scored a record contract, and in 1975 he released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Active Voice | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...Obama would be a huge win for the Arabs," says government bureaucrat Saadun Abbas, smiling. "If he was coming here as President, then of course this visit would help [Iraq] a lot. But any visit [he makes] as a candidate is just for campaign publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Unsure How to Greet Obama | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

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