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...heading back to Pakistan only after the increasingly unpopular President Pervez Musharraf granted her amnesty as part of a power-sharing agreement--announced two days before he won the Oct. 6 election--that has infuriated opposition activists. Musharraf's landslide victory was largely due to Bhutto's party members following her directive to abstain from voting. That gave the general, who came to power in 1999 in a bloodless coup and still holds the title of army chief, the legitimacy he craves as head of state. With the Supreme Court scheduled to decide on Oct. 17 whether Musharraf could...
...didn't say that, he certainly should have. Turner devoted his life to light, even when his public couldn't follow him into it. His admirers, and they included the great polemicist John Ruskin, called him the supreme English painter of his day. His critics, and there were more of them all the time, thought his watercolors were "crude blotches" and his oils a "gross outrage." They also routinely called him insane (which hurt--his mother had died in Bedlam, the London asylum). Their complaints boiled down to the same thing. Turner made light tangible but things illegible...
...support David Pilbeams's decision - the laws on underage drinking are pretty clear, and as an institution we have to follow them," he wrote in an e-mail...
...based on what he believes in. Those decisions have a cost for you and sometimes for other people, and you'll never know really if they were right or if they were wrong. You just have to trust your own judgment and live with the consequences of that and follow through...
...under 21 liken bar visits to CIA missions: one must be inconspicuous, stealthy, and cavalier. The bouncer is the enemy. With compassion for the newly sober under-agers roaming the campus (hi Dean Pilbeam!), FM decided to take one for the metaphorical “team” and follow the wise adage: “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” To accomplish this mission, we approached some of the Square’s most notorious bouncers to learn the tricks of the trade. FM first visited the oft-frequented Hong Kong Restaurant, best...