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...mental breakdown led to a 40-yard touchdown and a last-second loss, the first in seven years in the team’s season opener. The defense gave up 153 yards rushing and 339 through the air to go along with the four touchdowns. Harvard managed just one sack in the game after posting six in its 2006 debut...
...second quarter and beginning of the third, which turned a 14-0 Harvard lead into a 24-14 deficit, the Crimson defense stiffened and stopped Holy Cross on four consecutive drives in the third and fourth quarters. When junior linebacker Glenn Dorris took down Randolph for a fourth-down sack with 1:49 to play and Harvard clinging to a 28-24 lead, some Holy Cross fans headed for the exits.But an ineffective three-and-out by the Crimson and three timeouts by Crusaders head coach Tom Gilmore forced the team to punt, setting up the winning touchdown drive from...
...elected officials from holding military rank. (Retired soldiers must wait two years before standing for office.) Musharraf previously got around the contravention by getting an exemption from tame judges. That exemption expires when his term does, and the Supreme Court, which resents the general for trying to sack highly respected Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry earlier this year, is unlikely to give him another. "Never before has a judiciary emerged which is able to check the power of the executive," says Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, director of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT...
...which can block his bid to remain in power by enforcing a constitutional ban on elected officials holding military rank. Musharraf previously got around that by obtaining an exemption from tame judges. That exemption expires on Nov. 15, and Supreme Court justices, who resent the general for trying to sack an independent-minded top judge earlier this year, are unlikely to give him another. If Musharraf sheds his uniform, they can block him with another constitutional provision: retired soldiers must wait two years before standing for office...
What Sharif does have going for him is a groundswell of public support. Unofficial polls conducted by government agencies show that even before his deportation, Sharif's numbers were climbing. Many of the groups that demonstrated across the country this summer when Musharraf tried to sack the Supreme Court justice have thrown their support behind Sharif. As a center-right politician, he also has close ties to religious parties, which would allow him to build a broad coalition. He lacks support in Washington, but as Musharraf and Bhutto continue to fade, that could--and should--change...