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...country with a history of fierce political rivals coming together for their own survival, the idea of a union between Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf and exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto seems preposterous. After all, they hate each other with an undisguised passion. She has a phobia about military dictators--her politician father was executed by one--and has described General Musharraf as an incompetent ruler who indulges in "puerile brinkmanship." In his view, she and Nawaz Sharif, another former Prime Minister, epitomize the weak, deeply corrupt democracy he overthrew in a bloodless 1999 coup. Just the mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's New Odd Couple? | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...more evolved of the two; he feels no threat from the queer agenda, nor much interest in it. It's Chuck who has problems even being considered gay. At their wedding, Larry is willing to exchange a perfunctory kiss; Chuck socks him. I now pronounce you Homo and Phobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Superbad: A Fine Bromance | 8/17/2007 | See Source »

Three University animal technical workers cited numerous incidents they considered to be racist acts, including an instance when a Latino cage-worker with high blood pressure and a phobia of snakes and reptiles was sent to work with those animals...

Author: By Jessica A. Estep, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Latino Workers Allege Racism | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...Miraculously (as it seemed at first), people would help. Far from averting their gaze or palming me off, interviewees would e-mail me extra information, share anecdotes, call me back to check details. They were often funny and invariably nice. No longer an abstract phobia, strangers were an extracurricular...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Accept the Candy | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis ___” 36 It can be third-person or first-person: Abbr. 37 Formal wear 39 Listen (to) 43 Hospital locales, briefly 44 Teachers’ org. 45 Blues singer James 46 *Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song is “California” 60 Israeli guns 62 Mother fucking? 66 Number of muses 67 Total, as a tab 68 Make-up artist? 69 Head, in French 70 Go too fast...

Author: By Kyle A. Mahowald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mass. Communication | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

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