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...Pakistan's Emergency Re Simon Robinson's "Pakistan's state of Emergency" [Nov. 19]: President Pervez Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased under his rule. Will Pakistan end up like Iraq? Amer Azam, Lahore, Pakistan...
...tricky, of course, to act like an old-fashioned dictator in a globalized world. Musharraf can shut down Pakistan's television stations, but he can't silence the criticism swirling on the Internet. He can spook Pakistani artists, but he can't counter the momentum of the global art market, which has begun to take notice of the wealth of Pakistani talent. A burgeoning interest in South Asian art, coupled with the topical nature of their work, has given Pakistani artists an increasingly high profile overseas. Indeed, there are three new exhibitions in Britain alone devoted to Pakistani...
...STING Spanish King Juan Carlos I made headlines when he cut off a ranting Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez at a Chilean summit by saying "Why don't you shut up?" Now the comment has become a cultural phenomenon...
...rare turn two years ago, Harvard students were shut out of the Rhodes Scholarship competition. Last year, the College came back with a vengeance, boasting six awardees. This year, three winners gave the Crimson a happy medium. Clara L. Blattler ’08, Sammy K. Sambu ’08, and Shayak Sarkar ’07 were awarded the prestigious full scholarships to Oxford University, which include in their criteria “literary and scholastic attainments,” “success in sports,” and a commitment to service, morality and leadership. Blattler...
...lead.“Voith just took over,” Farrar said. “He had some great working-class, blue-collar type of goals late in the game.”With three minutes left, the Crimson defense once again stepped it up to shut out its opponents for the entire the quarter. Connolly recorded 14 saves to lead a defense that prevented Johns Hopkins from scoring on four of five man-advantage opportunities.“We’ve been practicing for them for a couple of weeks, and we executed when we had opportunities...