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...order to lift emergency rule should please Musharraf's Western backers, including the U.S. But many of the measures Musharraf introduced over the past six weeks remain. Draconian new regulations such as the one that curbs the freedom of the press as well as the changes to the Supreme Court "shall not be called into question by or before any court," a clause in today's order reads. Musharraf's announcement came within hours of a suicide bombing which killed five people outside an army base about 75 miles (120 km) north of the capital Islamabad. Pakistan has faced...
...Wilson himself had talked grimly of the 'bloodbath' that might follow a unilateral declaration of independence ... In his talks with Smith last month in London, it had become painfully clear that neither side would make any meaningful compromise on the fundamental issue. The British would give Rhodesia its freedom only on condition that the nation's 4,000,000 blacks be guaranteed control of the government within the foreseeable future. To most of the 220,000 whites, however, that would be suicide. They offered only two meaningless gestures: allowing more blacks to vote for the 15 African seats in parliament...
...Sure, certain businesses have discovered that a well-conceived list can be marketable. (Cough! TIME 100! Cough!) But for selling ideas--making them definitive and catchy--a number and a catchphrase do wonders. If only the Founding Fathers had named the Bill of Rights 10 Great Tips for a Freedom-tastic Country!, Americans might actually be able to remember them...
...greatest buying opportunity comes on Dec. 18, when Sotheby's auctions off what it calls "the birth certificate of freedom": the Magna Carta (above), one of 17 originals that still exist and the only one in private hands. Signed by England's King John at Runnymede in 1215 to appease his rebellious barons, the charter was revised over the years until the 1297 version became the foundation of English liberties. When Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to buy one privately in 1984 for $1.5 million, he lent it to the National Archives so it could lie beside its democratic descendants...
This past Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of good judicial sense. In two separate, simultaneously issued rulings, the court determined that federal judges ought to have the freedom to hand down just sentences, even if they contradict federal sentencing guidelines. One of the court’s decisions focused on the disparities between jail sentences given to users of crack cocaine and those doled out to users of the drug in powder form. Following the court’s lead, the U.S. Sentencing Commission changed its sentencing guidelines to close the gap between the punishments given...