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Musharraf declared himself the new chief executive. His first months in office were marked by contradiction and lack of vision. He required a personal loyalty oath from high court judges but spoke fondly of "consensus." His promises of economic revival and "true" democracy to replace his elected predecessor's "sham" democracy petered...
...Chernov: We expected an expert professional investigation as the basis for decision-making. Instead, incompetent conmen came up with hasty decisions. We said outright that it was an adventurist sham. They can't even have their equipment moved to the place on time. But the weather in the area will get prohibitive within a couple of weeks. The whole thing is doomed to fail. I can't find decent words to describe all this. I can only suspect that they never intended to raise the Kursk...
...congressional Lothario dig himself deeper into shame by refusing to have any shame at all. We warned you that if you had any distaste left over from impeachment (which at least starred the President of the United States, and a great performer at that) to boycott the whole sham and rent a movie...
...counted. Each drilling platform can take up as little as 10 acres. The pipelines are above ground. For space purposes, the amendment counts only the ground touched by the stanchions holding up the pipe. Road widths also are conveniently left out of the space limit. "It's a complete sham," complains Allen Mattison, a spokesman for the Sierra Club which opposes drilling. "It's like a fishing net. If you count just the space of the string's width, that's small. But if you open up a fishing net and count the area it covers, that's much larger...
...accept free-lance, unconventional struggles in our politicians' biographies. We are grateful to have any real story at all, so lusterless and lawyerly and venal has the breed become. Jesse Ventura's battles as a wrestler may have been an arduous sham, but at least they had some screwball color, and the goofy, sweaty theatrics of struggle. But of course sham subverts struggle, and gives the audience nothing more nourishing than irony and cheap entertainment...