Word: reigns
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...President Pervez Musharraf responded with a call to oppose "anyone trying to incite hatred." But sectarian violence has worsened under his reign. Musharraf has been reluctant to act against militant groups, largely to avoid alienating the fundamentalist political parties keeping his secular political opposition at bay. "The government does not recognize the threat homegrown terrorists pose to the stability of Pakistan," says Samina Ahmed of the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based NGO. "Isn't it time the government recognized the price of the game being played...
...ultimately, the gallows, the firing squads, and the pistol shots to the head.” According to the Documental Centre for Human Rights in Baghdad, “Saddam Hussein killed no fewer than 600,000 innocent civilians” over the course of his 24-year reign...
...purge, recognizing that most Sunnis with the competence to play executive roles and the credibility to represent their community are likely to have had some involvement in the old regime - and that as distasteful as it may be to the Shiites and Kurds who suffered most under Saddam's reign of terror, precluding all former Baathists from power would play into the hands of the insurgency by deepening Sunni alienation from the new regime...
...clashed famously, in part over personalities and content--Redstone loving the superstar deal, Karmazin leery of it. According to a source close to Viacom, Karmazin referred to the creative folks as the "arts and crafts people." Viacom's Paramount movie studio earned a reputation for pennypinching during his reign, and after Karmazin left, Paramount executives were encouraged to take more risks on potential blockbusters. "Sumner was always Mr. Content Is King, and that was a little in conflict with Mel's natural tendency to drive quarterly growth," says a source close to the execs. Karmazin says he was never that...
With his formal installation in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI took his place as the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics. His young reign, however, has already shown embryonic symptoms of a perennial papal predisposition—the urge to involve the church in the temporal affairs of sovereign states...