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South Asian political specialist Gower Rizvi took over as director of the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) Institute for Government Innovation Tuesday, and quickly announced plans to construct a long-term vision for the fledgling institute...
...times, a threat concealed a promise. In 1997, Shakeel asked an obscure producer named Nazim Rizvi to shelve a film because it might heighten Hindu-Muslim tensions. "I have told him to make proper films and assured him that his costs will be taken care of," Shakeel told time, adding, "If the director doesn't abide by my decision, I'll just have to kill him." Rizvi obliged. Three years later, Rizvi made the lavish Chori Chori Chupke Chupke with a brilliant cast that was not only expensive but booked for other films years in advance. Shakeel had come through...
...Musharraf's future has ramifications beyond Pakistan's borders. He is the linchpin in the U.S.'s war against terrorism. If he goes, Pakistan's position as frontline state could be undermined. But the referendum could backfire, says political scientist Hasan Askari Rizvi: "Suddenly people are thinking, how different is he really?" Some fear Musharraf may also try to consolidate his power further by formalizing the role of the National Security Council, a military-dominated body that would undercut Parliament and hold decision-making authority over all major national issues...
...have expressed reservations about the referendum. "It doesn't seem like the greatest tactic," says a State Department official. "It'd be better if he just let the Parliament make him President." But real democracy is a messy, unpredictable business. "It does not simply mean elections," says political scientist Rizvi. "It also means you must compromise, and you may lose some power." That, for now, is not something Musharraf is willing to entertain...
...Rizvi, Yale's number one player, shot 76--six over par--at the HYP Tournament. Ben McConahey, Princeton's number one, was only two shots behind Rizvi with...