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With his unflinching decision to join America's war on terrorism, Musharraf initiated one of the most dramatic U-turns in Pakistan's history. Now he sits on a powder keg. Makeshift bunkers have sprouted around embassies and government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing...
...considering many options, one of which might be having a security detail at every party with a keg,” Rodriguez said. “I don’t know what goes on in other Houses, but we want to make sure our students are safe...
Specifically, the House is not allowing registered parties, which according to current regulations are those with more than 30 guests or those with a keg...
...sticky situation since its editorial style has been founded on the premise of mixing real life with superheroes. This means that many of its characters "live" in New York and recently Marvel has used anti-terrorism as a major theme. "To some extent we are sitting on a powder keg and people could say, 'look at all this violence and terrorism,' and we could have run from it," notes Jemas. "But I think in the long haul a lot of the reason why this form of expression that we do at Marvel is popular is because it resonates to other...
...office, most of it surfing the Internet, some of it sleeping under my cubicle, a very small chunk of it reporting this story. A few times in high school I told my mom I was going to the movies when, in fact, I was going to very large keg parties that were customarily very lacking in adult supervision. And in a few days I am flying to Italy for a weekend, which is something else I didn't want my mom to know because she'd think I was being sooooo impractical. Which...