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...before. In 2002 Musharraf promised that he would step down as army chief in exchange for a one-time exemption to the very same article 63, citing the ongoing political tensions. Back then, he had the support of the Pakistani people. Now, many have lost faith. "It's a joke, nobody believes it," says Ayesha Tammy Haq, a lawyer and a prominent political talk show host. "If he takes off his uniform he is nothing. The subtext here is, 'You elect me President, or it's martial...
Whenever the subject of health care reform comes up on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton unfailingly offers a joke about how she tried that once before, and has the scars to prove it. The ambitious proposal that she put forward on Monday also shows that she learned a few things as well...
...Blanchett's, of course, is the star turn. both because it's an inspired stunt that she executes with aplomb (she's a more convincing Dylan, no joke, than she was a Katharine Hepburn) and because she's playing Dylan in 1965, the year he lost his old-folkie admirers on his way to rock stardom. With a fabulous frizz do, and a posture stooped by the burden of celebrity, s/he cavorts with the Beatles at a garden party, meets Allen Ginsberg (Arrested Development's David Cross) on the road and - it was always a game with Dylan - deflects reporters...
...name during our interview (even though it was written in inch-high letters on a nameplate in front of me). And so he affixed a P.S.: "Good luck, Steve"--with my name boldly underlined to say, "I do too know your name, and I'm in on the joke...
...their thumbs but also with their bodies. Do enough dancing or kung-fu kicks, and you just might get the same level of exercise as from chasing a soccer ball. What's more, this is a workout kids don't try to duck. "Physical education used to be a joke," says Dr. John Ratey, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Spark, an upcoming book about exercise. "That has changed simply because we are catching up with the gamer generation...