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...nation like Pakistan is far too thin. Pakistan's doom is that religion continues to be the primary basis of identity for this artificially created state, to the detriment of everything else. While the state champions a rigid sense of identity, the land reforms and economic, social and legal reforms that are critical to nurturing democracy and development have been totally ignored by feudal lords masquerading as politicians and hell-bent on retaining power. East Pakistan split away to become Bangladesh; given half a chance, Baluchistan or some other restive regions would do just the same. Sanjay Sarkar, Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...home in Cambridge and requires him to use it as a condition of employment for the convenience of the University,” and as such does not provide any compensation for such purposes. But subsidies are included for housing outside of Cambridge, as well as “legal expenses, personal travel, loan interest subsidies and retirement gifts.” With Summers’ resignation, the University agreed to provide him with “access to a mortgage loan on a personal residence consistent with University practice,” according to the tax filing. The report...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Salary Data Released | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...doing for us, right? But, of course, they didn't. Why? The money. It was just too good to let us, the simple-minded investors, foolish enough to think this was all on the up and up, know too much, to raise concern, to cause trouble with perfectly legal, unregistered, multibillion-dollar funds that worked hard to stay under government radar. Legally, they didn't have to say a thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madoff's Feeder Funds Stole My Retirement | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...though China's vast land mass means there are probably still plenty of valuable and legitimate fossils out there, China's fossil rush might already be a thing of the past. In 2002, the government tightened its cultural-relics law to ban private fossil-trading, drying up both legal and black-market trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Dinosaur Fossils: Vast, but Are They Real? | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...Ankara, Obama will also hear from opposition leaders, including the country's only legal Kurdish party, whom the government refuses to engage with to address the grievances of the large and restive Kurdish minority based mostly in the southeast. Kurdish lawmakers say they will speak to the president about ending the conflict with the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which spills over into Iraq and is potentially destabilizing for the region, and more regional autonomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey Is Ready to Welcome Obama | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

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