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...Pakistani People Power In the name of democracy, Pakistanis must be granted some level of participation in choosing their Premier [Sept. 24]. Selecting Pakistan's next Prime Minister in the backstreets of London or the hallowed halls of Washington is surely a step backward. Rather than debate which of Pakistan's erstwhile Premiers - both of whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored...
Pakistani People Power In the name of democracy, Pakistanis must be granted some level of participation in choosing their Premier [Sept. 24]. Selecting Pakistan's next Prime Minister in the backstreets of London or the hallowed halls of Washington is surely a step backward. Rather than debate which of Pakistan's erstwhile Premiers - both of whom have been tried, tested and found wanting - should be anointed, Britain and the U.S. should support a truly democratic process with an emphasis on justice, accountability and honesty. Otherwise, the common man looks set to remain sidelined, while the likes of a U.S.-sponsored...
R.E.M.'s Stipe draws the link between Corbijn's departure into film and his "audacious and courageous" move to London in 1979: "For a wildly successful, internationally known artist to shift mediums at the age of 52, and to have Ian Curtis as the subject of his premier feature, I think brings his odyssey full circle...
...Kolkata derby, which most recently took place during this mid-August deluge, is an epic contest older than the Spanish civil war waged between Real Madrid and Barcelona and deeper than the glossy rivalries of the money-spinning English Premier League. India, of course, is not a football power - at home, the sport is dwarfed by cricket, which has captured the country's popular imagination and advertising revenue. Despite a few recent successes, the Indian national side is still a minnow in the pool of world football. It's ranked a woeful 145th overall by FIFA, football's global governing...
...nationwide antigraft campaign that has brought down a slew of senior officials, including Chen Liangyu, party secretary of Shanghai, who is under arrest and reportedly awaiting sentencing for his alleged role in a scheme that channeled enormous sums in pension funds into private investment. Hu and his close ally Premier Wen Jiabao have also sought to shift growth from the coast to the interior and tackle China's dreadful environmental problems...