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...dubious of Musharraf's numerous justifications for prolonging military rule. Past military regimes in multi-ethnic Pakistan either overrode or distorted constitutional provisions for the distribution of power between the center and the units of the federation, undermining national cohesion and dividing society along ethnic and territorial lines. To retain power, the Musharraf regime will require and will inevitably exercise centralized control, if not for any other reason than to ensure the continued support of its main constituency, the armed forces. To truly devolve power, the regime would deprive itself of its control over the country's economic resources...
...true" democracy to Pakistan, as Musharraf has pledged? In the past fifty years, Pakistan's fragile democratic base has eroded as a result of repeated military interventions. With the October coup, Pakistan is back to square one and time is fast running out. Should the present junta decide to retain power indefinitely, depriving 130 million Pakistanis of democratic avenues for bargaining, participation and dissent, political instability and internal divisions will threaten the very fabric of a state where history has the tendency of repeating itself as a farce...
Dole's departure means, among other things, that the only GOP candidate willing to stand up to the party's anti-gun control orthodoxy is out of the picture. In May, Dole said she would retain the assault weapon ban and support the prohibition of armor-piercing bullets--both common-sense measures anathema to the powerful National Rifle Association...
...have heard Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996, justify peacekeeping neutrality despite violent conflict with a clear oppressor to retain the UN's status as an impartial mediator. Although frustrating to see violence continue amidst peacekeeping troops, the UN peacekeepers can lend stability to post-conflict areas, especially when coupled with other UN programs that monitor the evolution of political and judicial power and foster economic development...
...realm deprived of it. The princesses dance barefoot, as if to accentuate their delicacy and femininity in a dismal bleak world, and also their child-like helplessness in Kastchei's realm. Yet when the princesses are alone, they joke and socialize; true to the human element, they retain hope, never do the characters give in to benign acceptance of their situation's injustice. In the end, when Ivan and the Firebird triumph the audience experiences the captives' exhilaration as they become liberated from Kastchei's oppression and see color for first time...