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...Perkins' memoir, the Silicon Valley legend--hardly short of ego--manages that trick, revealing himself in all his "nerdy" glory and lifting the veil on the very good life. He sews dry humor through tales of yachting triumphs, road rallies in expensive cars, tech start-ups and the boardroom coup he instigated at Hewlett Packard. Looking back without rancor or remorse, he has a knack for storytelling that makes him feel like a buddy who never fails to laugh at himself...
American support for president Pervez Musharraf has always come with a cover story to gloss over the awkward fact that one of the U.S.'s most important allies happens to be a military dictator. General Musharraf may have seized power in a coup, say his defenders in Washington, but he's our sort of guy, the kind of man we need in the fight against terrorism--and, by the way, he has always said he will return his country to democracy. In other words, the Pakistani strongman is crucial to both of the U.S.'s key goals in the Muslim...
...military command. His regime is already promising that elections will go ahead in January, by which time a Musharraf-Bhutto alliance may be firmly in place. If Musharraf lasts that long, that is. Indeed, within days of the declaration of emergency, rumors began to spread of a coup backed by Pakistan's new vice chief of army staff, General Ashfaq Kyani, Musharraf's heir apparent. Rumors are commonplace in Pakistani politics, and Kyani is a loyalist. Still, for many Pakistanis--even those fed up with military dictators--the rumors brought a glimmer of hope. Abida Hussain, a former ambassador...
...past eight years Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, has run the country as both President and general. That straddling of both offices - which many say contravenes Pakistan's constitution - was challenged in October when Musharraf won a second term as President with 98% of the vote in an election that was boycotted by the opposition. Musharraf had promised that he would step down as general before he was sworn in as President. But a Supreme Court ruling on the legitimacy of that election was still pending, and the court ordered that Musharraf could not be declared...
...have been fostered by a U.S. policy of supporting Musharraf over the unpredictability of a true democratic process. Rather than forcing Musharraf to seek consensus, and thus enable a representative civilian government that would support him in his campaign against extremism, the U.S.'s tepid response to Musharraf's "coup" has only exacerbated his inability to effect change, critics argue. "The amazing part was the lukewarm reaction of Condoleezza Rice," fumed Haider. "What nonsense that was. They should have registered outright contempt. These extra-constitutional measures by General Musharraf are not in the interest of the war on terror...