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Heroes come with chariots. James Bond had his Aston Martin, Batman had the Batmobile. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry rides in a rattletrap 1994 Mitsubishi Pajero with ailing suspension, an inoperable sunroof and no windshield wipers. Shy, slightly cross-eyed and at times awkward, Pakistan's Supreme Court Chief justice is as...
In the early 1920s, Congress created a system of immigration quotas based on countries of origin, weighted toward northwestern Europe. "The races from Southern and Eastern Europe," a lobbyist argued, had no experience of government other than "paternal autocracy." The great immigration contraction coincided with a nationwide revival of the...
Star Wars fans love to stand in line - for movie tickets, for Billy Dee Williams' autograph, for limited-edition anything. That much was clear Thursday, as a few thousand of them contentedly cooled their heels in a line that wound around the Los Angeles Convention Center on the first day...
Celebration IV kicked off with a total-immersion program - a free screening of all six of George Lucas' Star Wars films back-to-back, a 17-hour marathon with intermissions, attended by 3,000 extreme fans. The better knowledge a fan has of the Lucas canon, the better he can...
Sidney Verba ’53 has joked that prior to becoming Harvard’s chief librarian, he thought of libraries like he thought of supermarkets—he knew he needed what was on the shelves but had no idea how it got there. The same cannot be...