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...Party of the recently assassinated Benazir Bhutto can come to an agreement with Nawaz Sharif, the former Prime Minister who was overthrown by Musharraf in 1999, then the opposition may be able to muster the two-thirds of seats necessary to try to impeach the President. The election result is clearly a repudiation of Musharraf's eight years in power, but, perhaps more importantly for Pakistan's longer-term political future and development, it appears to be a rejection of fundamentalist Islam. The religious parties, which took 11.3% of the popular vote in the last ballot in 2002, have gone...
...although Northern Rock was pursuing a conspicuously high-risk business strategy, which enabled it to increase its share of the mortgage market very substantially, the new regulator proved to be asleep on the job, and the danger was completely overlooked until crisis overtook the bank last September. As a result, it had to be bailed out by the Bank of England, and an adequate deposit-protection arrangement had to be put in place to remove the threat to the rest of the U.K. banking system...
...Yard meant giving up my precious coital quarters for a double I now share with my roommate, “Skeeter,” in Dunster. To make matters even worse, our double is a walk-through, with my bedroom inconveniently in the middle. As a result, Skeeter has walked in on me and Maude “proving our love” several times and I have this sense that he is starting to get annoyed by it. He refuses to talk to me or even look me in the eye anymore. He doesn’t even leave...
...cruelty at Hallmark/Westland was institutionalized, but its causes were economic. The $133 billion American meat processing and packaging industry has expanded rapidly, as the world’s meat consumption has risen fourfold in the last 50 years. The result is slaughterhouses that mandate a kill every three seconds, and an inspection regime that can’t keep up. Shapiro points out that the simplest way for individuals to stop abuses like those at Hallmark/Westland is to eat less meat. An uncomfortable thought perhaps, but less so than re-watching the video...
...Whatever the outcome, many Pakistanis are still marveling that the election went off mostly freely and mostly fairly and has ended in a result that reflects voters' wishes. "All the King's men are gone, the King's party has been reduced to ashes and the King's fate is in the hands of the next parliament, which will be strong enough to strip him of his extraordinary powers or impeach him if it so chooses," wrote the editor of Lahore's influential Daily Times Najam Sethi, reflecting the surprise many Pakistanis feel. "So let us give the devil...