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Musharraf is under no illusions about the size of the task before him. Asked if his is the toughest job in the world, he replies with quiet bluntness: "I think at the moment, yes." Under U.S. pressure, Musharraf has pledged to keep his promise to end one-man rule through national legislative elections in October. He has already appointed himself President, and according to Pakistan's constitution, the President must give up control of the military, which would mean ceding the army's might--and his power base--to another general. But Musharraf has given no indication that...
...one-man rule slides to an end, the criticism of Musharraf is getting louder. His newfound moderation in Kashmir--he has at least temporarily choked the flow of militants into India--has further eroded his popular support among hard-liners. "He abandoned Afghanistan, claiming it was necessary to save other Pakistani interests, including Kashmir," says Farhan Bokhari, a member of the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tehrir. "Now he's abandoning Kashmir." India distrusts Musharraf utterly, and its battalions remain poised on the border. His embrace of Washington has earned him the sneering nickname at home of "Bush-arraf." While...
...seminal late-1960s Japanese comic series about a wandering Samurai and his child has been brilliantly transplanted by Collins to the American gangster genre. Compared to his character in the film, O'Sullivan Sr. has many more scenes of ruthless killing. He comes off as a one-man army, using a multitude of weapons to rampage through dozens of men at a time. At one point he rides down the banister of Capone's hotel firing off rounds from both hands. While it would be a stretch to see Tom Hanks' somber, journeyman character pulling off such a stunt...
...Lubbock, Texas. Pike first went to Saigon in 1960 as a government information officer, and became an authority on the communists and America's involvement in the Vietnam War. DIED. RAY STRICKLYN, 73, gay actor, author and publicist best remembered for his portrayal of Tennessee Williams in the one-man show Confessions of a Nightingale; in Los Angeles. When the show opened, Stricklyn was representing, among others, Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor for John Springer Associates. His 1958 performance as the son of Gary Cooper and Geraldine Fitzgerald in Ten North Fredrick earned him his first Golden Globe nomination. DIED...
HANOVER, N.H.—The one-man wrecking crew that was Dartmouth’s Scott Shirrell took a toll on the Harvard baseball team beyond the 14 runs he knocked home in Saturday’s 25-1 debacle...