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...Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced Saturday that its candidate for Prime Minister will be Yousaf Raza Gilani, a former parliamentary speaker and close aide to Bhutto, who spent four years in jail on allegations that he abused his authority during Bhutto's second term as premier in the 1990s. Pakistan's new parliament is set to vote on a Prime Minister Monday, with President Pervez Musharraf due to swear in the new premier Tuesday. Gilani's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) will form a government in coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz...
...tougher to control now than it was in 1989, even from the remotest of regions. And though everyone was watching Tiananmen then, this is different. This year, the whole world is not only watching; it's coming to Beijing, less than five months from now. Thus, officials from Premier Wen Jiabao down have felt the need at least to try to make the case that the government response has been measured, and that any violence was the fault of the demonstrators. Before, they would have just thumbed their noses at the rest of the world...
...might be the most difficult year for China's economy, because there are a lot of uncertainties both inside and outside the country.' WEN JIABAO, Chinese Premier, on the danger posed by rising inflation and a slumping global economy Numbers
Pico Iyer, one of the world's premier prose stylists, has been following the journey of the Dalai Lama since he was a tiny child. In 1960, when Pico was 3 years old, his father visited in India with the newly exiled Dalai Lama and brought back a picture of the shy 24-year-old for his son. That picture sat on Pico's desk for 30 years, until 1990, when a fire roared through his family's house, wiping out everything including the photo and bringing home to him the Buddhist idea of the impermanence of life...
...community. According to Medical School professor David H. Bor, the clerkship program—which receives much of its financial support from the Medical School—is a redesign of the traditional third-year medical curriculum. “The Cambridge Health Alliance will continue to be a premier setting for the education of health professional students and post-graduate trainees,” said Bor, who is also the CHA’s chief of medicine. “We provide an exceptional setting in which to teach medical students about societal and public health aspects of medicine...