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...month struggle that erupted after President Farooq Leghari dismissed Bhutto amid allegations of corruption and economic mismanagement and then jailed her husband, former Investment Minister Asif Ali Zardari, for accepting massive kickbacks and abusing his position in government. Zardari had earned the nickname "Mr. 40 Percent," the sum he reportedly demanded of potential business contacts, after being acquitted of the same charge several times in the past. Bhutto had been battling desperately to retain her office by threatening to block the general elections, scheduled for February 3. The justices ruled 6-1 against Bhutto after hearing convincing evidence...
...effectively agreed to legalize gay marriage. Though homosexuals would still not be able to be married in Massachusetts, they would only be required to go to Hawaii for the civil ceremony and return to a life of married legitimacy. Since airfare for two to Hawaii is no small sum, it will still be difficult for poorer homosexuals to marry. Unlike Hawaii, neither Massachusetts' nor the federal government's constitutions have privacy clauses or bans on gender discrimination written into them. So Weld's decision is the quickest and easiest way for gays to obtain marriage rights here...
...whole culture of technology-loving--and in some cases, perhaps, technology-worshipping--futurists, such words smack of 1st millennium thinking in the face of 3rd millennium faith. They tend to see in the Internet something larger than themselves, an entity so much greater than the sum of its parts as to inspire awe and wonder. "People see the Net as a new metaphor for God," says Sherry Turkel, a professor of the sociology of science at M.I.T. The Internet, she says, exists as a world of its own, distinct from earthly reality, crafted by humans but now growing...
...only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with repeat customers," he explains. "With me, these kids can walk out of school and get good quality at good prices--$35 for an eighth [of an ounce of marijuana]. I'm not a pusher, which is disgusting; I'm a dealer--people who want...
...real Undergraduate Council meeting on October 27, the issue of our budget came up as the first order of business. The new members (approximately 75 percent of the council) were baffled, but we tried to stay tuned. The Undergraduate Council budget is approximately $120,000 a year, a considerable sum brought about mainly by a payment of $20 on everyone's term bill. The constitution breaks council money into three funds: grants, committee and operations. The constitution in Article V, Section 2, says specifically, "No less than 60 percent of the council's finances shall go to the grants process...