Word: khan
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There is nothing new in the phenomenon of a single audacious individual grabbing humanity by the throat. But Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Napoleon all started near the center of the world they set out to conquer. Not too long ago, Saddam would have been a peripheral nuisance -- a pirate or a warlord meriting the dispatch of an expeditionary force from some imperial metropole...
...France flew 800 diplomats and other foreign residents to safety in separate rescue missions last week. Soldiers looted the American embassy as soon as the last helicopter took off. Reported Italian Ambassador Mario Sica, who left Saturday: "The city is being sacked as in the days of Genghis Khan...
Last week the new government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...
...alliance's victory is a relief for President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who dismissed Bhutto's government in August, and for the military leaders who encouraged his move. But Bhutto's drama is not over. Several pending misconduct cases could bar her from politics for seven years, and criminal charges against her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, could send him to prison for 17 years. The coalition, for its part, needs to come up with solutions to the issues troubling the country, including a critical economic situation and sour relations with Washington...
They did it in part because conservatives at Harvard are a persecuted lot. A Harvard conservative who mentions having an anti-abortion stance or being attached to the free market quickly gets classified with Ghengis Khan and Attila the Hun. Mentioning that you have some moral qualms about homosexuality will draw the wrath of most of College. The isolation and marginalization of Harvard conservatives partly explains why AALARM proclaimed "traditional values" in such a reactionary...