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...Kennedy School in 1997, she said, “I’d just like you all to know how wonderful it is to come back home.” The ovation she received that day drowned the irony in her speech. She had just been dismissed as Prime Minister of Pakistan on corruption charges. Also telling was that this foreign leader considered Harvard, rather than Pakistan, to be her true home...
...drinking age and the extensive logistical constraints that it puts on party registration and advertising suggest that the administration is more concerned with following the letter of the law and covering its bureaucratic hide than about protecting the lives and safety of students, which should be the prime focus of any alcohol policy. One aspect of the policy that could potentially promote safety is the requirement that tutors check in on registered parties at least once. While this provision could ensure that students who need medical attention are more likely to be found, it is rendered impotent by the draft?...
...Italian politics, turning everything on its head is the preferred method for keeping everything standing in place. Just 21 months after Romano Prodi knocked Silvio Berlusconi out of the Prime Minister's office, Italy is once again heading toward elections. And who do polls say will be the next Prime Minister? Silvio Berlusconi, of course...
...rough-and-tumble politics: she has switched political parties four times. That has helped earn her the derogatory epithet lota, the round-bottomed (and thus wobbly) pitchers used in Pakistani bathrooms. But this time around, Hussain has a powerful ally: the ghost of Benazir Bhutto, the popular former Prime Minister who was assassinated on December...
...first time in 30 years, Hussain is campaigning again under the banner of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), founded by Bhutto's father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. It is an interesting turn: in the mid-1990s, Hussain was the Ambassador to the United States for then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the sworn enemy of the Bhutto dynasty. As she sits on a hastily constructed outdoor platform covered in tattered oriental rugs, in the village of Lalian, she addresses a small crowd of turbaned and prayer-capped men. They are local farmers, lured by the promise of tea, snacks...