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...emergency rule: civil liberties have taken a hit and thousands of suspected troublemakers picked up in midnight sweeps. Behind all this, it's commonly understood that Moeen and the military really run the show. The Harvard-trained general was made army chief just under three years ago and is coy about the extent of his power. In his first major interview with foreign media, he told TIME of the urgent need to clean up Bangladesh's cynical, venal and corrupt politics. Moeen looks back to what preceded Jan. 11, 2007, when the army intervened, and recalls chaos: "The situation...
...smartest people you'll ever meet are the guys who used to operate the M. Coy bookshop on Pine Street in Seattle. Business pressures recently forced them to shutter their shop, but for 20 years, they sold their books, and from the moment you walked into their store, they had you figured out. They noticed where your gaze would go; they noticed where you paused. They noticed what books you picked up and how long you lingered over them. They recalled earlier customers who had bought the same titles and remembered other books those shoppers bought. They flashed through their...
Date My House--and HGTV's Sleep On It, which has essentially the same premise--points up the shift in power between buyers and sellers. During the housing boom, it was the buyers who were afraid they might have to date (i.e., rent) forever. Your house was a coy Victorian maiden with eager suitors queuing up in the parlor. Now it's Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, facing squalor and destitution should it fail to find a suitable match. It's a contestant on The Bachelor, competing with a crowd of others and pining for a private date...
...very tactical player, and she understands the game at a very high level.”Approaching the halfway point of her college career, the future for Lizzy Nichols appears rosy. But would her present remain Crimson, if offered a three-year contract by a professional club?Nichols remained coy over her prospects of playing the game as a full-time job.“It would depend on how I’m feeling in terms of my body at that moment,” she says. “I think that I do have a certain amount...
...English court of King Henry VIII, and how both come to bear his children though only one ascends the throne. Natalie Portman ’03 (“V for Vendetta”) gives one of her most convincing performances as Anne Boleyn, the coy but spirited queen who eventually loses her grip on Henry VIII (Eric Bana, “Munich”). Mary, played by Scarlett Johansson (“Lost in Translation”), is Anne’s quiet and obedient younger sister—the other Boleyn girl—who goes unnoticed until...