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...Chaudhry wasn't always a hero. Despised by some lawyers because of a perception that he took a progovernment stance on revenue cases, he was known as an abrasive, activist judge. As a Supreme Court Justice he was widely criticized for legitimizing martial law in 2000 and for a ruling by the Supreme Court in 2002 that permitted General Musharraf to keep his uniform while holding the office of President. "I wanted to take up arms against him," says Muneer Malik, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, who now works on Chaudhry's defense team. In 2005 Chaudhry...
FUSHE-KRUJA, ALBANIA Albanians give Bush a rare hero's welcome...
...make the place vibrant again and is even considering ways to build his complex without housing. "This is one of the most important pieces of American history," he says. And his critics seem willing to drop their opposition if he drops housing. "Joe Sitt can still be a hero," says local historian Charles Denson. "He could go down in history as someone who saved Coney Island." But at this point, that's conjecture. The only certain thing is that if you love the old Coney Island, or think you might, now isn't a bad time to swing by Ruby...
...intensely as they might be, given that songs like Independence Day and My Father's House map out a worldwide atlas of the tangles between father and son. And in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Manzoor gives up a bit on America and its hopefulness, as his hero (on his album of reconciliation, The Rising) seldom does. But by then Manzoor has already showed us how to live as something more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name...
...military intelligence service. Mladic is wanted for his role in the shelling of Sarajevo, and also faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity over the murder of some 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995. But for many Serbs, he is still considered a war hero. Initially, Mladic found protection under the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, but even after he was forced from office in 2000, Mladic continued to receive a pension from the Serbian military. The general was last spotted in public in Belgrade in 2005, where he had spent several years moving from...