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...success story of the subcontinent, a democratic entity divested of India's terrible legacy of caste entitlement. Little more than a year after Mohammed Ali Jinnah signed the document declaring Pakistan a sovereign state, the erudite, Savile Row-suited father of the nation died of lung cancer and tuberculosis, leaving the infant democracy bereft of his enlightened guidance. With him died the charismatic leadership that his new nation, divided into West and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh), desperately needed in order to grow as a modern state. In a sense, Pakistan has been searching for its parents ever since...
...year business, recording 29 albums and touring widely. Among its repertoire: My Momma Told Me: You Better Sleep Around (inspired by Monica Lewinsky); The Angina Monologues (Dick Cheney) and The Sound of Music-inspired How Do You Solve a Problem Like Scalia? Strauss was 60 and had pancreatic cancer...
...Choice of a New Generation" (including, regrettably, the commercial in which Michael Jackson's hair caught fire); "It's Not TV. It's HBO"; GE's "We Bring Good Things to Life"; and Visa's "It's Everywhere You Want to Be." He was 71 and had lung cancer...
...done little to systematically dismantle these jihadist "armies" now that their original purposes - fighting the Soviets and supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan or fighting the Indians in Kashmir - are over. "They have nothing else to do," says Cohen, "and they are causing mischief." He adds: "It's like a cancer you've started elsewhere that comes back...
...Makarere University and a lead researcher on Mabira's medicinal plants. Kamatenesi is leading a drive to conserve plants such as Citropsis articulata, or the "sex tree." Also in danger of extinction in Mabira is Pronus africana, which is commonly used to treat malaria and some forms of cancer...