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...hours of yearly commuting time per person costs society broadly too - in fuel consumption, poorer air quality, and lost productivity at work. "When you take all the delays and aggregate them on a national level it is a staggering cost," says Peter Martin, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the University of Utah Traffic...
...Later in his Harvard career, Strauss devoted himself to civil rights, founding the Fellowship of Concerned University Students (FOCUS), a group that helped more than 400 black students gain admission and find funding to attend previously segregated colleges...
...swept Saakashvili into power as the Prince of the Rose Revolution - a mass upheaval that overthrew the previous regime. The people hoped against hope that Saakashvili - young, strong, incorruptible and U.S.-educated - would redress the numerous ills of this small former Soviet republic, devastated by almost two decades of civil wars, the loss of three provinces, mass poverty, and bullied by its erstwhile Imperial master Russia...
...hardly the first to urge Musharraf to step down. For the past several months newspaper columnists, civil society representatives and even former military personnel have asked him to do so, saying that a graceful resignation by Musharraf would usher in true democratic change, thus ensuring him a powerful legacy. By staying in power through a flawed - some say unconstitutional - presidential election, Musharraf has lost that opportunity. He could yet step down, after ensuring that the upcoming parliamentary elections are absolutely transparent and that a working government is formed in the new parliament. His tenure would still be haunted...
...dictators like Musharraf or feudal aristocrats like Bhutto. "We have a bad habit of always personalizing our foreign policy," says P.J. Crowley, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Little effort has ever been made to look past individuals and encourage or engage with the institutions of Pakistani civil society. The most recent example of this neglect came last summer when Pakistani lawyers and judges protested Musharraf's summary sacking of an independentminded Supreme Court judge; they received little more than lip service from Washington, which was more concerned about Musharraf's survival...