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...Over the past year, Musharraf has shown a remarkable resilience, defying predictions that he would be either assassinated or that the multiple crises forcing his popularity downward would finish him off. But at what cost? His artful dodger tactics may have kept him in power, but in doing so he has squandered his earlier legacy of cleaning up government, building infrastructure and improving the economy. While he still imagines himself the savior of Pakistan, few Pakistanis see it that...
...From European villa-rental agencies to African safari operators to most American cruise lines, many summer 2008 prices were set in dollars up to six months ago. So even if the dollar continues its downward trend, costs are confirmed now for travel later...
...former Majority Leader Trent Lott became the seventh Republican to announce plans to depart the Senate. The move has fanned Democratic hopes of a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in that chamber and GOP fears that the party is in a downward spiral...
...Musharraf's sacking of the independent-minded Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on March 9 that launched Pakistan's largest genuine people's movement in decades, and tipped the general into a downward spiral of decreasing popularity. In support of Chaudhry, the nation's black-suited lawyers took to the streets. They were joined by ordinary Pakistanis, who showered Chaudhry with rose petals and gathered by the tens of thousands to hear the unassuming judge give speeches on the finer points of constitutional law. Few understood the arcane legalese he used to describe his cases against extra-judiciary detentions...
Next to it is a flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...