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...police and thousands of lawyers and opposition activists outraged by Musharraf's decision to suspend the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, for alleged abuse of office. Musharraf's critics say the President is attempting to rig the system to ensure he stays in power. Their ire boiled over when Pakistani police raided a television station to prevent it from covering protests outside the Supreme Court. Some Pakistanis who have excused Musharraf's authoritarianism in the past now portray him as a jackbooted dictator. "I think he has ruined himself," says retired Lieut. General Hamid Gul, former...
...BEEF: Fifteen years after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
...provide a way for students to get their hands dirty. But as with anything new at Harvard, the potential direction of the project has been a cause of controversy. The General Education Board’s proposed exploration of expanding the scope of activity-based learning has incurred the ire of critics who fear bureaucratization of student-run extracurricular activities...
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Professor Gregory N. Connolly, whose findings on the rising nicotine content in cigarettes drew ire from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA last month, will bring his fight against Big Tobacco to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Connolly will appear before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to argue in support of legislation recently introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calling upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the cigarette and smokeless...
...years at Harvard, James Freeman Clarke, Class of 1829, recalled with no little ire that the Faculty subjected the students to a daily drilling in which "no attempt was made to interest us in our studies." The new century brought a fresh crop of (apparently) benighted undergraduates, and as late as 1963 yet another committee of Overseers to study Harvard’s teaching fellow program had unearthed "a considerable amount of uninspired, inexperienced, and weak teaching...