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...mission to Rome later this week especially important. He is going there to bring back the country's exiled King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, in an effort to reconstitute national unity. The King's 40-year reign, the country's last taste of peace and prosperity, was ended by a coup in 1973 while the monarch was in Italy for mud-bath treatments. At an interview with TIME, the King appeared in notably better health than he did five months ago, when world leaders began looking to him to help fill the vacuum left by the Taliban. Still...
Zahir Shah, 87, is expected to touch down this week in Kabul for the first time since he was ousted in a bloodless coup by a cousin in 1973. Security will be extraordinary as the former King is accompanied from Rome by interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. Both Karzai's presence and the tight security are signs that Afghanistan's good guys and bad guys alike believe the royal leader may possess a singular power to unify the fractured nation. A European official with extensive experience in the region said the ex-monarch's popular support is remarkably strong...
...owners how to manage it, said he might have to go back to Pakistan if he cannot find a new job in America. Shuja said he used to run a daily newspaper in Lahore called Sadakat, but was forced to leave the country after General Pervez Musharraf staged a coup in 1999 and effectively took control of every national newspaper...
...Harvard, up until 1984 when Baker Professor of Economics Martin Feldstein arrived from his post as the chair of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers, Ec 10 included several units on critical perspectives of neoclassical economics. Once Feldstein arrived, the unit was cancelled. The Feldstein coup at Harvard mirrors a similar transformation that occurred in economics in the middle of this century. Before the middle of the 20th century, very few people, intellectuals included, considered the economy separate from moral beliefs of what should be. Over the last forty years, economics has become increasingly mathematized...
...just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast--composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"--is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup in the fictional African land of Ishmaelia. Much has changed in journalism since Waugh wrote, but no one who knows the current corps of foreign correspondents would fail to recognize a few types from Scoop...