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...Musharraf has become so vulnerable that even an opposition figure who has long been absent poses a serious threat. Now in exile in Jeddah, where Saudi authorities have him under virtual house arrest, the 57-year-old Sharif continues to haunt Musharraf, 64. His return to Pakistan, though brief, has effectively changed the country's power equation. In the immediate aftermath of Sharif's deportation, public reaction was muted. But there is a growing sense of a nation spoiling for a fight. The day after Sharif's failed comeback from exile, his political party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PMLN...
...pair's departure was a serious blow to a department that lost several scholars during Summers’ tenure, including star professor Cornel West, who left for Princeton after Summers suggested in a much-publicized confrontation that he should spend less time on developing rap CDs and more time on traditional scholarship...
...around me, I heard a great Zen-like steam of rushing water, but nary a human tinkle. I stopped mid-stream, overtaken by a sudden case of lavatory fright. In the land of toilets so fancy they sport buttons that manufacture artificial "flushing sounds," I had apparently committed a serious bathroom faux...
...Inflation is OK right now, and the economy is weakening...I think he should lower it.” Feldstein argued for a large rate cut at a widely-watched Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on September 2. “The economy could suffer a very serious downturn” if the housing market remains weak, Feldstein said, according to a Wall Street Journal transcript of his speech. “A sharp reduction in the interest rate, in addition to a vigorous lender of last resort policy, would attenuate that very bad outcome...
...wrote that the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have led to “crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians.” While they do not back off this claim, they acknowledge in the book that “virtually all states have committed serious crimes at one time or another” and that “some of Israel’s Arab neighbors have at times acted with great brutality...