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...seven years now. Earlier this month Musharraf imposed what is effectively martial law, forced Supreme Court judges not loyal to him off the bench, and cracked down on independent journalists. Musharraf says he will step down as army chief of staff in the next few days, ahead of being sworn in for a second term as President later this week. He also says the state of emergency will soon be lifted. Parliamentary elections are scheduled for early January but opposition parties, including Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, have...
...both offices - which many say contravenes Pakistan's constitution - was challenged in October when Musharraf won a second term as President with 98% of the vote in an election that was boycotted by the opposition. Musharraf had promised that he would step down as general before he was sworn in as President. But a Supreme Court ruling on the legitimacy of that election was still pending, and the court ordered that Musharraf could not be declared the winner - and thus be sworn in - before it came to a decision. Musharraf, apparently, wasn't willing to wait. On Saturday Musharraf declared...
...Arroyo isn't just facing attack from sworn political enemies. Three prominent Catholic bishops have joined the chorus calling for her resignation, while the head of the country's influential Bishops' Conference charged her administration with "moral bankruptcy." Whisperings of an impending palace coup remain rampant among Manila's political observers. "I think the military will do a Thailand," says Harry Roque, an international-law professor at the University of the Philippines and a vocal Arroyo critic...
...contrived “community of learned men,” and that his education was intended to give him something more than a lucrative career. He claims that there is more to living in a civil society than being an unfettered individual and so is an anachronism, the sworn enemy of the formless, unstructured diversity that we must venerate...
...work on their three minutes, their five minutes, 10 minutes.” Although he had several mentors, Greenbaum says he was effectively learning the craft on his own when he first tackled stand-up. “I would write out jokes that I could have sworn were hilarious, but when I got on stage, they would flop. It’s a horrible feeling,” Greenbaum says. “We sort of vet the jokes before they even hit the stage,” he adds. This is an unusual practice for stand-up comedy...