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...Supreme Court Bar Association, who now works on Chaudhry's defense team. In 2005 Chaudhry was promoted to Chief Justice. But then he started investigating extrajudicial detentions and querying a spate of disappearances of activists. Earlier this year, he held the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills-a pet project of the Prime Minister-to be unconstitutional. Many in Pakistan suggest that Musharraf's principal motive in dismissing Chaudhry may have stemmed from fears that the increasingly independent Chief Justice would obstruct the President's bid for another term, which requires a constitutional amendment ratified by the Supreme Court and approved...
...last days of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie - contains dozens of factual errors and improbable characters, like the former palace employee whose sole job for 10 years was to use a satin cloth to wipe urine from the shoes of visiting dignitaries set upon by the emperor's pet...
...More broadly, Bok writes, the decentralization reflects schools’ willingness to “pay a premium to preserve control over functions that affect their welfare and that of their members.” Bok also reflects on ways to improve teaching at Harvard—long a pet project of his, as illustrated by the center for teaching and learning that bears his name. Bok calls the recent report on teaching issued by FAS “splendid,” but he criticizes professors’ “passive resistance” to efforts to assess...
...economics of immigration remain a mysterious science. Everyone has a pet study proving immigration suppresses wages or it builds economies. A less malleable truth is that many towns, like many companies, are faced with a stark choice in the global economy: grow or die. So Beardstown is growing, a healthy economy surrounded by dying rural towns. The U.S. is in the same situation. For all the stresses of immigration, it is the only industrialized nation with a population that is growing fast enough and skews young enough to provide the kind of workforce that a dynamic economy needs. The illegals...
...goes as scripted, such extraordinary rescue efforts may not be necessary. Authorities are hammering away at the need for people who have their own means to leave the city to make animals a part of their evacuation plan, whether it's scoping out in advance a hotel that allow pets or reserving space at a kennel outside the danger zone. For the city's part, Sneed says that, in compliance with the state and federal laws enacted after Katrina, people who do not have their own way out of town will be allowed to bring their pets with them when...