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Will a stronger dose of religion cure Pakistan's ills? Many of Nawaz Sharif's countrymen think it could send Pakistan into terminal decline. According to the well-respected Karachi newspaper Dawn, people "just want a little improvement in their lives from the tyranny and callousness of Pakistani officialdom." Political opponents, including, of course, ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, say the new Islamic bill is likely to increase that tyranny. One interpretation holds that this amendment will anoint Nawaz Sharif as a religious dictator, a supreme arbiter of what is considered good and evil under Islam. Nawaz Sharif, though, contends...
...represented to him that he was the victim of bad luck and bad fortune, and she could cure him of it," O'Brien said...
...began visiting Miss Anna, who then lived at 168 River St. in Cambridge and whose real name is Ann Collins. In hopes that she would cure his malevolence and save his family, the man paid her more than...
...This is a way to keep idle hands busy in the domestic aerospace industry, too," says Kluger. All of which hardly sits well with NASA administrator Daniel Goldin's vision for "faster, cheaper, better" space missions. And researchers who could have used the money to do something useful -- cure cancer, say, or map the human genes -- can only watch and weep...
...spymaster, is a man who believes in strong government, and presumably felt he had to respond when his President called. The Duma confirmed him overwhelmingly, 315 votes to 63, last Friday. His appointment solves the political stalemate at the top, at least for now, but it does nothing to cure the nation's economic crisis. Primakov has not yet put forward a program, but his signals indicate a partial turn away from market reforms and toward more state intervention in the economy. That is not what the U.S. and the bankers of the West were hoping...