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...Northfield Mount Hermon (Mount Hermon, Mass.) rising senior held offers from every Ivy League school and received serious interest from major programs such as Stanford, Notre Dame, and Virginia...
...demanded that he be charged with "high treason" for "subverting the constitution." The current summons is not binding, so Musharraf has the option of dispatching a lawyer to speak on his behalf. On Friday, after consulting with former ministers, he has appointed a team of high-powered lawyers to mount a defense. The chances of Musharraf, currently residing in a new apartment in London, appearing for a verbal showdown with Judge Chaudhry are remote, despite his statement in a recent television interview that he was willing to fly back to Pakistan and face his accusers. (See pictures of Pakistan...
Allegations of racial profiling continued to mount after the arrest of prominent black Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. last week, but students and faculty interviewed Tuesday were cautious about leveling blame, even while acknowledging the possibility of police misconduct...
...hundreds of thousands of people called for a do-over of the June 12 presidential election officially won by incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, many Iranians have wondered if Rafsanjani, one of the Islamic Republic's most powerful men and a leading supporter of defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, would mount a challenge to Ahmadinejad's main patron, the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Khamenei...
...phenomenon," says Sheik Ahmed Turky, an imam who leads a congregation of several thousand at one of Cairo's largest mosques, Masjid al-Noor. Still, he says, "the pressures of living and the costs of marriage" have added to it. (Read "As Men's Job Losses Mount, Wives Feel the Impact...