Word: mindedness
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Six decades later, Ahsan is still trying to break authoritarian rule. Now president of Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association, he led tens of thousands of lawyers and other pro-democracy activists in nationwide demonstrations last summer after President Pervez Musharraf sacked the independent-minded Chief Justice. The protests received...
Retired four-star general Anthony C. Zinni said in an interview last night that Iraq policy will largely be determined by the situation on the ground and not by which party wins the White House in November. “The situation in Iraq will dictate the actual policy,?...
The good news is that the superdelegate conundrum is likely to resolve itself without much drama. The thing to remember about superdelegates is that they are pols-and tend not to be all that independent-minded anyway. The last thing they want is to act as referees who call the...
Sifting through the list of 700-plus terms that contain "love poems" reveals some interesting trends. As we see with term "teenage love poem," above, lack of originality begins early, with teens appearing to be the prime culprits in word-stealing (though a less cynical man might hope that literary...
How Do You Measure Merit?To the business-minded people who are increasingly running the nation's schools, there's an obvious solution to the problems of teacher quality and teacher turnover: offer better pay for better performance. The challenge is deciding who deserves the extra cash. Merit-pay movements...