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...ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium...
...ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium...
Still, an equal tradeoff is rarely exacted. All too often, books seem to have a clear advantage over film, if only evidenced by the oft-heard, “Yeah, the movie was good, but the book was better.” And biographical films seem especially prone to this disparity. A successful biographical film must take advantage of at least one of several saving graces: superb acting, historical interest, surpassing cinematographic treatment or a truly remarkable real-life epic. The following are salient examples of biographical films that have done this; it seems dubious that Riding in Cars will...
Where the Harvard administration has failed in the past in its efforts to build community has been in its methods, not in its goals. Administrators prone to unilaterally legislating change will fail at tending to an organic network. Community is organic, it is a fluid collection of sentiments and actions bringing individuals together, providing support and inspiration. Community cannot be mandated; it must be encouraged. Students must be involved in the process of community-building, especially as they bear much of the responsibility for making it vibrant. A community effort will fail if it does not consult and involve...
...eventually came out to some of the pastors at the church, they said it “wasn’t a really big deal. They said it was like I had a problem with gambling. They said it was a lust problem, and that some people were more prone to certain sins...