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...Washington's war against al-Qaeda has given new luster to such poster-children of democracy as Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who anointed himself President after taking power in a coup. Musharraf talks the language of Western modernity and eloquently denounces extremism, but democracy in Pakistan is rationed by his hand. President Bush may rail against Syria's ruthless dictatorship, but his own security agencies happily cooperate with Syria's unlovely secret police in fighting al-Qaeda - Canada is up in arms, right now, over the case of a Syrian-born Canadian arrested in transit...
...make the decision rather precipitously early in my career. And I thought briefly that I might regret giving up my family name, but now I wouldn’t want any other name.” Apart from enjoying what he calls its “luster,” he also likes that the name appears to be just two-of-a-kind. “Wherever I travel, I look in the telephone books and I can never find another Harvard...
...Adding luster to Clark's aura with dissatisfied Democrats is the perception that he is running with the benediction of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The former President has certainly stoked this impression; he has been talking up Clark's virtues in public and private for months, and a few weeks ago, he declared that his wife and Clark were the "two stars" of the Democratic Party. And no one could fail to notice that the Clark effort is salted with operatives from the campaigns of Clinton and Al Gore, like Mickey Kantor and Mark Fabiani...
...pink slip might be a blessing in disguise. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who's been in the pressure cooker seven years, likes to give this advice to new governors, only half jokingly: "demand a recount and hope you've lost." Four states where the post is losing its luster...
Brown's Focus, a high-luster boutique in London's Mayfair district, is not what you would call a sizable space. There may be price tags in this shop bigger than the sales floor. But one reason David Adjaye is the hot British architect of the moment is that he knows you don't need much room for an exclamation point. So into this narrow shop he has insinuated a staircase of varnished particle board that runs from the lower level to the center of the main floor. Jazzy, glamorous and slightly disreputable, this is a staircase that...