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...little over a year ago President George W. Bush leaned across his podium at a White House press conference and told Pervez Musharraf he was "a strong defender of freedom and the people of Pakistan." Now he's sending the Pakistani President quite a different message. Last week, four days after Musharraf declared martial law, Bush called him and said, "you ought to have elections soon, and you need to take off your uniform. You can't be the President and the head of the military at the same time." This Friday he is dispatching his Deputy Secretary of State...
...Fundamentalist Christian tradition, and the level of born-again tub thumping is mercifully low--though there are signs that as a result of American cultural influence, it is creeping up among the young. Any political candidate who declared that God was on his side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose...
...were going to be tough, but we were confident in our ability to beat them.” Although the Big Red won eight events to Harvard’s six, Harvard placed in second or third in all of the races in which it did not top the podium, providing enough points to triumph over Cornell. In the 200-yard breaststroke and the 500-yard freestyle, the Crimson displayed the depth that earned it a victory. In the breaststroke, Rathgeber came in first with a time of 2:06.04. He was closely followed his teammates, freshman Justin Davidson, freshman...
...since Mao Zedong has wielded less and less individual power and has been forced to seek consensus on important decisions. Hu is no exception and had to make compromises. He failed, for example, to name Li Keqiang, his favored candidate, as sole successor. Indeed, Li trailed Xi onto the podium Monday, confirming a belief among analysts that, for the moment at least, Xi has a slight edge in the race to lead China. (If previous practice is followed and no unforeseen events intervene, Xi will succeed Hu at the 18th Party Congress in 2012, while Li will take over...
...freshman proved quite the augur: he was almost expelled from the 1968 Games the night before the men’s crew final for apparent complicity in the “Black Power” protest U.S. track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos made on the podium. Had Hoffman been booted the night before the final, his crew would have likely elected to forfeit rather than row without him. The IOC eventually cleared him due to lack of evidence, but Hoffman and the Harvard boat finished last in the Grand Final the next day. Hoffman’s tril...