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...drive anywhere for the Chief Justice these days takes on the trappings of a campaign rally. But Chaudhry is no candidate. He is a symbol, rather, of a yearning for democracy and an independent judiciary, and the people of Pakistan are coming out in the tens of thousands to show their support. Even visits to the Supreme Court in Islamabad, where the charges against Chaudhry are being debated, are cause for protests-or at least they were, until the recent enactment of a ban on any public gatherings of more than five people. The battered 1994 Mitsubishi Pajero that...
...military. "That frame, of the Chief Justice sitting in front of the general, did for Pakistan what the Tiananmen Square photo of the boy standing before the tank did for China," says former Law Minister Iftikhar Gilani. "Almost every Pakistani has seen that image, and it has become a symbol of defiance against military rule...
...Hotel in New Delhi on a recent Sunday night, businessmen J.P. Goenka and N.R. Pillai enjoy 12-year-old Glenfiddich at $8.50 a shot. "Those who can afford it drink it. But for most people, it's still too expensive," says Pillai. "It's a sort of a status symbol," says Goenka, each finger encased in a nuggety ring. "India has a massive middle class ready for this sort of thing, but it's still perhaps just a bit beyond them." The two men take another...
Some part of the solution to these worries is obvious. Harvard University needs more black faculty, administrators, police officers, security guards, staff, and students, so that the 13 percent of the American universe that is black can become less of a supercharged symbol in other people’s inflated self-estimations and more a range of human beings with diverse talents and ways of making the world a better place. The other concrete need is for the entire University community to recognize that the world is not color-blind, and that a careful, self-conscious, and hyper-cautious level...
...have dreamed this would happen." It was the most voluble the Chief Justice had been throughout the ride. "This would be one hell of a campaign," said Ahsan, a former senator with the PPP, with a small tinge of regret. But Chaudhry is no candidate. Instead he is a symbol of political change in a nation whose patience with its military dictatorship is growing increasingly thin - and he poses an even greater risk to the current government. Analysts in Pakistan suggest that Musharraf's principal motive in suspending Chaudhry may have stemmed from fears that the increasingly independent Chief Justice...