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...League school came from Princeton, which sank 28 spots to 34th. The nation’s crown prince of coital prudence was the University of Minnesota—taking the mantle from Yale, which dropped from first place to number 16. The Report Card’s press release proclaimed the Ivy League the “most sexually healthy conference.” All the Ivies placed in the top 40 schools in the ranking. Still, Bert Sperling, the founder of Sperling’s BestPlaces, the firm that conducted the study, said yesterday that...
...lived in self-imposed exile in London and Dubai since 1999, has hinted at an eventual return to her beloved homeland. She would lead her country to democracy, she promised, but was always coy about when, exactly, she would start. On Friday, in a series of carefully orchestrated simultaneous press conferences held in eight Pakistani cities, Bhutto's Pakistan People?s Party announced the long-awaited date: October 18. Any subsequent information they may have wanted to express was drowned out by the sound of ecstatic cheering and the machine gun rattle of fireworks. In Islamabad the PPP headquarters were...
...Bhutto press conferences all started precisely at 5:30 p.m., exactly 40 minutes before sundown on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The good Muslims in her audience hadn?t touched food, drink or cigarettes since dawn. And so, the post press-conference invitation to a traditional sundown feast was met with more cheers than the announcement of her return - proof that she knows what will please a crowd...
...elections, Supreme Court rulings on Musharraf?s ability to run for another term while maintaining the office of Army Chief, and a contempt of court case against the government for preventing Sharif?s return among them - but whatever happens, the events will be exhaustively covered by a brand-new press corps, an unpredictable new factor in Pakistani political life that neither Sharif nor Bhutto ever faced...
...Pakistan?s electronic media. Over the past five years media deregulation has meant that dozens of independent TV stations have exploded on the scene, ready and all too willing to exploit the slightest misdemeanor of those in power. Musharraf has already felt the bite of this newly unleashed press: Exhaustive coverage of his attempts to dismiss a popular Supreme Court justice contributed significantly to his plunge in popularity...