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...chance of that. "This is the kind of tolerance he has shown for the rule of law in this country," says Ahsan. "Everything he does is illegal. President Musharraf is illegal." But with the independence of Pakistan's highest court now in tatters, it's power, not laws, that matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Musharraf's Move Could Backfire | 11/3/2007 | See Source »

...said that it was not wise for the commission to initiate a new study given the history of the matter...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study of City Park Stalls New Mansion | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...performance found in disadvantaged communities. In Boston, it was easy to see the achievement gap as a physical fissure, the distance from the Harvard T stop to the less pampered subway stations on the other end of the Red Line. Crossing that fissure cost about two dollars, and no matter how often I visited Dorchester, I remained a citizen of Harvard’s side...

Author: By Charles J. Mcnamara | Title: Teaching for America, In Rural Arkansas | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...representative scheme of university governance, we must accept the unavoidable fact that we will always create a class of governing students and one of governed students. And no matter how closely the former reports to the latter, no matter how democratic a process leads to the selection of those classes, they will always remain separated. Such division is inherently incompatible with the academic utopia of the undergraduate body, where utter equality of conditions is an imperative...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Why Representative Government Doesn't Work for Students | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...eyes when she learned the second baby was another girl. But Oanh, 41, couldn't be happier. "Wanting only boys is the old way of thinking," she says, protectively curling an arm around her bulging tummy. "I hope that when my daughters grow up, it won't matter to anyone if their children are boys or girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam's Girls Go Missing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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